Mo Index continues to flag insecurity as threat to East African countries

Eastern African countries have seen their governance systems weakened by insecurity and other related challenges.

The latest edition of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) sees governance, which is the provision of the political, social, economic and environmental public goods that every citizen has the right to, as having become worse.

For almost half of Africa’s population, living in 16 countries, the performance of rights was worse in 2023 than in 2014, and has been declining since 2019.

In Kenya, this was worsened by the Gen-Z…