A man is dead. Nine motorcycles are ash. A police vehicle is wrecked. And two competing narratives about what happened this weekend are now circling each other like fighters before a brawl. The thesis here is simple and uncomfortable: Kenya’s…
A person is dead. The IEBC has sent investigation teams. Candidates are accused of bribing voters and running illegal midnight campaigns. And the government is handing out gas cylinders and fishing boats days before polling. Whatever happens in Ol Kalou,…
A four-hour Ebola test result. That is the difference between a controlled outbreak and a catastrophe crossing into Kenya. The Kenya National Public Health Institute (KNPHI), working with the U.S. government-funded Strengthening Infectious Disease Detection Systems (STRIDES) programme, has deployed…
Picture this: a court awards Ksh.38.6 million to families whose loved ones were brutalised by police during protests in Kisumu, then issues clear directives to the very institutions responsible — and those institutions simply ignore them. No compliance. No request…
A Construction Site That Became an Economy Something unexpected is happening on the outskirts of Kericho Town, and it deserves more attention than it is getting. The government’s Affordable Housing Project at Majengo-Talai is not just stacking 324 housing units…
A Promise That Hasn’t Reached Everyone President Ruto stood at State House and made a vow to the nation: the government would compensate victims of state violence during the Gen Z protests. It sounded historic. It sounded like accountability. But…
What is actually happening here? President William Ruto is being forced — not choosing — to reshuffle his Cabinet. A court order has made it inevitable, and that distinction matters enormously. This is not a voluntary act of political goodwill…
There is a particular kind of silence that descends on a country before its press is broken. You don’t hear it coming. You feel it — in the hesitation of an editor before publishing, in the self-censorship of a journalist…
The Movement That Rattled the State Is Now Fighting Itself Picture this: a political movement born from the raw fury of Kenya’s Gen Z uprising, one that had the establishment visibly nervous, now turning its energy inward — arguing, fracturing,…
It started with a break in routine. Rigathi Gachagua had been deep in his 45-day political consultation retreat at his Wamunyoro residence — a deliberate, calculated withdrawal from public life — when the call came from the Coast. Leaders of…
