Raila Odinga has added a new twist to Kenya’s electoral saga. By saying that he won’t take part in new elections that had been rescheduled by the country’s Supreme Court, the presidential candidate has not only signed a death sentence to his long political career, writes Dominic Burbidge. He has also pushed the possibility of Kenya holding free and fair elections even further down the road.

Over the past few years South Africa’s Competition Commission has launched a number of formal investigations into the competition, or the lack of it, in particular sectors ranging from telecoms to banking. Phumudzo Munyai argues that while these market enquiries tend to excite politicians, they’re a drain on the commission’s resources and don’t necessarily lead to greater competition in the sectors that have been investigated.