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Kenya’s maritime domain is no longer a peripheral concern. It is central to national security, food systems, trade, employment, and the Blue Economy ambitions articulated in Vision 2030. Against this…
Kenya’s gateway to the world is leaking value. The Port of Mombasa and its inland trade corridors remain vital arteries for the East African economy, yet they continue to haemorrhage…
In mid-September 2026, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) convened a four-day Port Security and Inter-Agency Coordination Workshop in Bosaso, the commercial heart of Somalia’s Puntland State. Participants from port authorities,…
The oceans are the circulatory system of the world economy. More than 80 percent of global trade by volume still moves by ship. Energy, food, manufactured goods, and the cables…
The Indian Ocean in 2026 is witnessing an unsettling return. Somali piracy is no longer the threat that international naval power supposedly suppressed to near extinction—it is back, and it…
On a Friday evening in Nairobi, amid the formalities of the third Kenya Quality Awards Gala Dinner, a simple but profound truth was restated: investment and innovation alone will not…
The pirates are back. Not as swashbuckling Hollywood caricatures, but as a tenacious, adaptive threat that never truly vanished from the waters off Somalia and the broader Western Indian Ocean…
The sea does not forgive complacency. For more than a decade, the waters off Somalia were treated as a solved problem. International naval patrols, private armed guards, and improved best…
The Port of Mombasa is far more than a collection of berths, cranes, and warehouses. It is Kenya’s primary maritime gateway and a critical artery for East and Central African…
In the vast expanse of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, where vital shipping lanes carry the lifeblood of global trade, a grim chapter from the past has…