What just happened — and why it matters beyond South Africa’s borders South Africa’s National Treasury just froze R13.5 billion in government transfers to 69 municipalities across all nine provinces. That’s not a bureaucratic footnote. That’s a government telling its…
Picture this: a government agency built to serve the people, to wire up public hospitals, schools and courts with the technology they need to function — and instead, it becomes a black hole where billions disappear, tenders rot in bureaucratic…
There is a political war brewing in Siaya County, and it has nothing to do with policy. It is personal. It is loud. And if you have been paying attention, you already know that Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi is done…
Something has died inside the Orange Democratic Movement, and most of its leaders are too comfortable to notice — or too complicit to care. The party that once defined opposition politics in Kenya, that carried the weight of millions of…
Kenya just secured a Ksh161.8 billion (USD 1.25 billion) loan from the World Bank — but the money did not come easy, and it did not come free of conditions. The central thesis here is straightforward: this loan is not…
The World Bank is cutting off China. By 2031, the loans stop. And this decision — quiet as it sounds — reshapes the global development finance landscape that directly affects countries like Kenya. The institution has confirmed it will phase…
A City Held Hostage Picture this: it is 7:30 in the morning, your matatu has barely moved in forty-five minutes, and the driver is gripping the wheel with the quiet fury of a man who has already done the math…
Global Markets Are Bleeding — And Kenya Is Not Immune Wall Street sneezed, and the entire world caught a cold. A brutal sell-off in technology and AI stocks last week wiped billions off global markets, triggered a meltdown in South…
MISA Tells Members: March and You Could Lose Your Job If you’re a motor industry worker thinking about joining the #MarchandMarch protests on June 30, your union has a blunt message for you: you’re on your own. The Motor Industry…
Ghana vs Gold Fields: The Fight to Take Back Tarkwa Is About More Than Xenophobia South Africa’s xenophobic attacks on African migrants didn’t just hurt the people they targeted — they lit a fuse that was already burning under one…
