Kenya Code of Conduct for Media Practice 2025 (LN 88/2025)
Tell the audience whenever AI was used to create, modify or edit images, videos or other editorial material.
In short
- Where: Kenya
- Status: In force since 14 May 2025
- Who: Journalists, media practitioners and media enterprises
- Covers: News and broadcast media only
- Kennmarq.com: covers images and video today; audio: waits for spoken notices in audio (expected December 2026); text: waits for text (expected March 2027).
Updated 4 November 2026; source checked 4 November 2026. Sources are government sites. This page explains what Kennmarq.com does; it isn't legal advice.
What it asks of each kind of file
| File | What it asks | Kennmarq.com today |
|---|---|---|
| Images | a visible label | Covered |
| Video | a visible label | Covered |
| Audio | a notice people can hear | Waits for spoken notices in audio (expected December 2026) |
| Text | a visible label | Waits for text (expected March 2027) |
In the API
A rule for news and broadcast media only: markets=ke applies Kenya's general rules in force or passed, not this one (what a call for Kenya needs). The table above shows what our marks add of what it asks.
Official text
- Media Council of Kenya, The Code of Conduct for Media Practice, 2025 (PDF)
- Kenya Law, Media Council (Code of Media Practice), 2025, Legal Notice 88 of 2025