ARCTOS
No. 01A Review of Kenya's Foreign AgreementsNairobi · 2026

Foreign policy,on the record.

As the diplomatic calendar fills, the agreements that bind Kenya are signed in the open and read closely by almost no one. Arctos reads them, against the constitution, the treaties, and the record, and reports what the text actually says.

The Deltas

Published briefs

Delta ReportCONFIDENCE HIGHJune 2026
The Kenya and EU Economic Partnership Agreement
What Kenya's flagship trade agreement was presented to be, and what the signed text and the regional court record actually show.
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BriefingCONFIDENCE MODERATEJune 2026
The Kenya UK Defence Cooperation Agreement, Ahead of Renewal
Kenya and Britain are set to renegotiate the agreement governing British troops in 2026, with the oldest question still open: who judges a soldier who kills on Kenyan soil.
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Delta ReportCONFIDENCE MODERATEJune 2026
The Microsoft, G42 and Kenya Digital Ecosystem Initiative
A one billion dollar promise, signed as a letter of intent, framed as historic, and stalled two years on.
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Delta ReportCONFIDENCE MODERATEMay 2026
The France and Kenya Agreements at the Africa Forward Summit
France and Kenya announced 170 million euros in landmark agreements in Nairobi. The signed text, and the summit's own numbers, tell a more modest and more conditional story.
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Delta ReportCONFIDENCE MODERATEJune 2026
The Kenya and Japan Automotive Financing Facility
Kenya borrowed 22.1 billion shillings on Japan's bond market and presented it as a vehicle manufacturing deal. Part funds cars, part funds the grid and the budget, and all of it is debt repayable in yen.
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Delta ReportCONFIDENCE MODERATEJune 2026
The Kenya and Rwanda Petroleum Transit Framework
Kenya opened the Northern Corridor to Rwanda's fuel, a real commercial win. It is a transit and storage framework, not a supply deal, and the corridor it opens still runs through Uganda.
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The intelligence layer between a government and the table

The most consequential agreements in Kenya's foreign relations are signed in the open and analysed weeks later, if at all, long after the moment for accountability has passed. Arctos closes that gap. It produces referenced analysis of treaties, state visits, and the deals struck between the state and foreign companies, grounded in the constitution, treaty obligations, and comparable precedent.

Arctos states what a document says and what it omits. It does not impute motive, it labels its own confidence, and it corrects in the open. Built first for Kenya. Designed for the continent. Referenced at every step.

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LIMITEDInference where the binding text was not available.