{"id":227174,"date":"2026-03-18T01:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-urged-to-strengthen-competition-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:02:05","slug":"kenya-urged-to-strengthen-competition-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-urged-to-strengthen-competition-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Urged to Strengthen Competition Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya has been urged to tighten enforcement of competition laws to improve market access and support economic growth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">A review by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), done with the Competition Authority of Kenya and Financial Sector Deepening Kenya, flagged gaps in regulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The report says overlapping roles among regulators in banking, energy, insurance and telecoms are weakening enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">It calls for better implementation of existing laws to ensure&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603170545.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya has been urged to tighten enforcement of competition laws to improve market access and support economic growth. A review by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), done with the Competition Authority of Kenya and Financial Sector Deepening Kenya, flagged gaps in regulation. The report says overlapping roles among regulators in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":227175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6795,10019,4688,430,257,254,6433,6206],"class_list":["post-227174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-competition","tag-enforcement","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthen","tag-urged"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}