Author: George Orido

George Orido is an award winning journalist with immense experience spanning over a decade including with East Africa's oldest newspaper The Standard. He has also written for the biggest newspaper in Kenya and East Africa, The Nation. Mr Oriodwho holds a Masters of Arts degree in Communication Studies of the University of Nairobi and a B.A Degree in Mathematics and Economics of Egerton University, is a Fellow of the IVLP in Washington D,C USA.  Based in Nairobi Kenya, Orido is an Adviser with the Institute of Economic Affairs, an Economic Policy think tank and member of the Afica Road Builders Babacar Ndiaye award under the auspices of teh Africa Development Bank. He is currently on the Board administering the Kenya Presidential Economic Recovery Fund for the creative economy.He is the founder and director of Sanaa TheatreAwards.

Kenya Diaspora Alliance stage protests at the U.S Embassy Nairobi in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter

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By George Orido As Kenya experiences a third month of general lockdown the Kenya Diaspora Alliance mobilized protesters and took the Black Lives Matter at the doorstep of the U.S Embassy in Nairobi. The organization that boasts 200,000 members spread across the globe condemned the murder of African American George Floyd and called for justice with a concoction. “Demented racists may step on our necks that we may not breathe, but our spirit and desire for freedom will not lose oxygen. George Floyd’s body may have been rendered lifeless but the World is now full of George Floyd whose spirit…

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Economy is far more important than C0VID-19 as Tanzanian President orders reopening of schools, weddings

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By George Orido Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has announced his intention to reopen the country’s schools economy saying the Covid-19 has been defeated in his country. He said the Covid-19 cases had dropped drastically, opening the way for life to return to normalcy amidst applause from the country’s legislators. He was addressing the Parliament in a State of the Nation Addressing preceding the forthcoming General Election. He also announced that the Registrar can start allowing marriages and weddings; “The people have waited for too long to be allowed to marry.” All schools will reopen June 21 making Tanzania the…

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Kenya and Tanzania nursing border wounds caused by trade impasse due to differences in Coronavirus testing protocols

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Covid-19 has become the poison in the chalice that is threatening to kill a cordial diplomatic, economic and social relationship between the two East Africa nations of Kenya and Tanzania jeopardizing multi-million Dollar trade between the two countries. This week Tanzania’s president John Pombe Magufuli was in the media celebrating his rather controversial policy towards Coronavirus pandemic that largely avoided lockdown and use of masks as well as social distancing as a way of mitigation. This is in contrast to Kenya’s strict measures including curfews, testing of truck drivers between the two countries, stopping social gatherings including church and schools…

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Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Richard Ngatia supports opening of the economy

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Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to reopen the economy amidst rising cases of Coronavirus occasioned by redoubled efforts to test many Kenyans who have largely been asymptomatic. The economy has been suffering due to a dusk to dawn curfew imposed by the President and the cessation of movement from the capital Nairobi As well as its second largest city, Mombasa. Economists have since lowered the expected Kenya’s growth rate from 5 per cent to 1 per cent this year. And leading support for efforts to reopen the economy is the President of the powerful Kenya National Chamber of Commerce…

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