Publication

This report presents comprehensive research findings on transnational organized crime and state erosion in Kenya. For many developing countries and fragile states, powerful transnational criminal networks constitute a direct threat to the state itself, not via open confrontation but by penetrating state institutions through bribery and corruption and by subverting or undermining them from within. Governments that lack the capacity to counter such penetration, or that acquiesce in it, face the threat of state institutions becoming dysfunctional and criminalized, and the very foundations of the state being undermined. This report examines whether Kenya faces such a threat.