Blood on the Ground in South Kivu On the morning of September 17, somewhere in the dense, mineral-rich terrain of South Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a convoy of private military contractors was moving between locations when the…
Picture this: you inherit a piece of land from your grandparents — land that has fed your family for generations, land that sits on a goldmine — and someone quietly sells it for a fraction of its worth while you’re…
So the US Embassy is shutting its doors. Why should you care? If you had plans to visit the United States Embassy in Nairobi on Monday, October 12, cancel them now. The embassy will be closed to the public for…
When the Vehicles We Trust Become the Threat We Fear South Africa’s National Consumer Commission has announced safety recalls affecting 879 vehicles — and if you think this is just another bureaucratic notice buried in government paperwork, think again. This…
A man who once commanded some of South Africa’s most powerful law enforcement operations is sitting in a prison cell in Pretoria, fighting to get out on bail. Shadrack Sibiya, the suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner, returns to the Randburg…
Picture this: it is Wednesday morning, the pump attendant replaces the numbers on the board, and just like that, the price of 95 unleaded petrol clears R30.25 per litre in Gauteng. A R3.33 jump, overnight, without warning, without apology. For…
For years, Africa has watched its own crises unfold while the world debated who should intervene, how fast, and under whose authority. The African Standby Force was supposed to be the answer — a homegrown, continent-wide rapid response mechanism that…
Picture a tout hanging off the door of a matatu on Ngong Road, wind cutting through his jacket, eyes scanning the street for the next passenger. He is not in any tourism brochure. No politician has ever name-dropped him in…
Every single day, Nairobi generates 3,200 tonnes of garbage. Let that number sit with you for a moment. That is not a statistic buried in some government report nobody reads. That is the weight of a city slowly suffocating under…
People are dying. Not on a battlefield, not from a disease with a complicated name — they are dying in Kiambu and Kirinyaga because someone, somewhere, mixed chemicals in a backroom and sold the result as alcohol. Deputy President Kithure…
