Security Updates

Background

MS Risk published a Security Briefing Note for Nairobi, Kenya on 23 March 2020.  The report examined available information and infrastructure and articulated potential outcomes for the COVID-19 pandemic in the regional capital.  The report was widely circulated and well received and, although the security assessments and guidance remain relevant, there is a growing requirement for an update. Since the publication of the last report, cases in Kenya have gone from 15 cases from 177 tests to 1161 cases from 55,074 tests on 22 May 20.  With forecasts for the region appearing significantly more negative than the manifest reality and the numbers appearing incongruously low compared to a global sample, it was assessed as necessary to provide an update to clients and colleagues in Nairobi and throughout the region to facilitate decision making.