On June 25, 2026, thousands of Nairobians woke up to find their city locked down. Thika Road, Mombasa Road, Waiyaki Way — all barricaded by police ahead of events marking the second anniversary of the 2024 Finance Bill protests. No…
Aaron Cheruiyot didn’t come to the Ura Gate Cultural Festival to dance around politics. The Senate Majority Leader walked into Tharaka-Nithi country with a direct message for the Meru community: stop worrying about whether Deputy President Kithure Kindiki will be…
Here is the truth that most young Kenyans refuse to sit with: the 2027 General Election will be decided not just by who votes, but by who registered early enough to vote. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has…
It started, as most Kenyan political fires do, with a microphone and a vernacular radio station. Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua had been making the rounds on Mt Kenya airwaves, pushing a single, potent message — that President William Ruto…
It started, as these things often do, with chaos at a rally. In Embu, not long ago, young men clashed at a political gathering — not because they had a stake in the outcome, but because someone older, richer, and…
A Businessman, a Billion-Shilling Loan, and a Case That Should Never Have Been Long before the arrest warrants and the courtroom drama, this story begins in 2016, when businessman Benson Ndeta made a move that would set off nearly a…
A 14-month-old boy named Dylan Muinde was taken from his home in Kangondo Village, Dagoretti, on Monday afternoon. Two women walked up, distracted the older child playing with him, and disappeared into a nearby forest with the toddler. CCTV footage…
The Crackdown Nobody Wants to Talk About On September 2, 2026, President William Ruto gave a blunt order: foreign nationals running small businesses and retail shops had until September 7 to shut down or face enforcement. Standing before micro, small…
The rains are coming — and the Kenyan government knows exactly which communities stand in the path of disaster. Eighteen counties across the Coast, Lake, North Eastern and Rift Valley regions have been officially flagged as high-risk ahead of the…
The Fire the Government Undercounted Mount Kenya has been on fire since September 1. Not a small, contained brush fire — a roaring, spreading crisis that has consumed 8,700 hectares of irreplaceable moorland, according to conservation organisation Rhino Ark. That…
