Yvonne Okwara
100 Articles
IMF warns Trump tariffs will hurt global economy
While the IMF does not predict a global recession, the distribution of the impact of the global trade tensions will be uneven based on country-specific vulnerabilities.
YVONNE’S TAKE: Saul to Paul, turncoats trail
The Biblical story begins with a man initially named Saul, Saul of Tarsus, referred to by some as the Pharisee of the Pharisees. As it turns out he was on a mission to the city of Damascus, to arrest and imprison the followers of Jesus Christ and return them to Jerusalem to face punishment....
YVONNE’S TAKE: Development by Executive goodies
it would seem that the successive administrations that were charged with implementing the Constitution are still stuck in the past. From the Uhuru Kenyatta administration to the present, we are witnessing what appears to be a hangover or an attempt to cling nostalgically to days past—a past that Ken...
YVONNE'S TAKE: Incompetence - Who's to blame?
It would seem that the President has been frustrated and sometimes seemingly helpless with his own Cabinet from the very beginning. A Cabinet he himself chose, presumably after careful consideration. And after vetting by a Parliament in which his coalition lays claim to the majority status....
YVONNE'S TAKE: Brian Odhiambo - Does Gov't really care?
There is nothing normal or ordinary about Brian Odhiambo’s mother pleading with a Cabinet Secretary, in tears, having to explain how important her son is to her and how frustrating the search for him has been.
YVONNE'S TAKE: The Constitution in handshake letters
Kenya faced its greatest test of unity—the post-election crisis of 2007-2008—that brought this country face to face with what unity, or disunity, could really mean.And from that very real crisis, the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 was born. Not just any law, but the supreme law of the land....
YVONNE'S TAKE: KUSCCO - The crime that lives on!
My story is that of many Kenyans. Like many of you, I was educated on Sacco money. My mother took one cooperative loan after another to take us to school, clothe us, feed us—basically, to keep us alive.
YVONNE’S TAKE: Political dishonesty & the manufactured narrative of unity
We are once again being forced into the false narrative that those on differing political sides are enemies and that this does not bode well for the country. So that their supposed handshakes, post-election agreements, broad-based agreements that are about to get even broader, will save the country...
YVONNE'S TAKE: Stay hungry, stay foolish
Staying hungry and foolish are rather interesting words coming from someone who was innovative and quite literally changed the world through technology. A man who would rise with the making of a 2-billion-dollar company, and fall, after being kicked out of the very same company he made.
YVONNE’S TAKE: Minister to Advisor
Louise Haigh was the UK’s Transport Secretary in Keir Starmer’s administration since July this year. Less than 6 months into the job, she did the unthinkable. She resigned.It all started with a Sky News investigation that revealed that Ms. Haigh had lied about a phone going missing. 10 years ago.&nb...