Here is the uncomfortable truth that no cabinet committee or Sh15 billion contingency fund can paper over: Kenya is heading into what could be its most destructive El Niño since 1982, and the government that is supposed to protect you…
With two years to go before Kenya’s next General Election, the ethnic dog-whistling has already started — and Parliament is pushing back. Lawmakers across party lines used the floor of the National Assembly this week to deliver a clear message:…
The Lie Machine Is Running at Full Speed There is a politician — prominent enough to command an audience, reckless enough to abuse it — who is currently telling Kikuyus that the Kenya Revenue Authority’s ongoing tax amnesty is a…
Over 106,000 village elders across Kenya just got a seat at the government’s table — and a monthly stipend to go with it. President William Ruto, speaking before more than 10,000 elders gathered at State House Nairobi on Tuesday, announced…
What exactly happened to Dr Victoria Mutiso? Dr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso, a psychiatrist, is dead. She was shot and killed in Nairobi, and the investigation into her murder is now pulling in an entire family, a stolen fleet of cars,…
Within hours of President William Ruto unveiling Vision 2060, the broad-based government’s political machinery was already in overdrive. Leaders fanned out across Suba North, Mbeere North, Nyamira, Homa Bay, and parts of Western Kenya — all singing from the same…
A leading Kenyan mental health researcher was assassinated in broad daylight on a Tuesday morning in Nairobi — two shots to the head, a waiting motorcycle, a getaway car already in position. This was not random. Someone planned this meticulously,…
The Question Nobody in the Opposition Wants to Answer “Ruto must go” is a slogan. It is not a plan. And for millions of young Kenyans who poured into the streets in 2024, watched their peers get shot, and still…
Here is the uncomfortable truth about Kenyan elections: money wins. It buys rallies, it buys airtime, it buys loyalty, and more often than not, it buys votes. So when the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) launches public hearings on…
There is a murder at the heart of this story. Agnes Wanjiru, a young Kenyan woman, was killed. British soldiers have been implicated. And for years, nothing happened — no accountability, no justice, no acknowledgment from the very foreign military…
