How East African Countries Are Regulating AI, and Where the Region Still Has No Rules
Banks across the region are already using AI to approve loans. Hospitals are piloting AI-assisted diagnostics. Retailers are forecasting demand with machine learning models, developments we've tracked across How AI Is Transforming Banking Across East Africa and elsewhere on this blog. Almost none of it currently operates under a binding, AI-specific law anywhere in East Africa. Every country in the region is somewhere on a spectrum between "actively drafting rules" and "hasn't started," and the gap between Kenya's regulatory ambition and Uganda's still-forming policy is wide enough that a company compliant in one market may have no equivalent obligations at all in the next. Here's where each country actually stands, and where the real gaps sit. Kenya: Furthest Along, Still Not Binding Kenya has moved faster than anywhere else in the region, but even its most advanced instrument isn't law yet. The country launched its National AI Strategy...
