The Kenyan government has disbursed Sh1.014 billion in compensation to 1,083 victims of human rights violations — covering deaths, injuries, sexual violence and economic losses — sustained during demonstrations and public protests, the Panel of Experts on Compensation of Victims…
Since mid-May 2026, African Swine Fever has torn through Kiambu County’s pig farms with devastating speed, killing more than 1,470 animals across over 20 farms. If you think this is just a farming story, think again — this outbreak strikes…
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…
Kenya’s Parliament is tightening its grip on public spending. The Budget and Appropriations Committee convened this week to interrogate Controller of Budget Dr. Margaret Nyakang’o on the state of the FY 2025/26 national budget — and what emerged was a…
A Nairobi-based creative education platform is betting that artificial intelligence can unlock a new generation of Kenyan comic publishers, placing homegrown storytellers at the table of a multibillion-dollar global industry that has, for too long, consumed African talent without producing…
Something is stirring in Bungoma and Trans Nzoia, and it has nothing to do with the usual political theatre that Kenyans have grown numb to. This is different. This feels personal. Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna is heading west, and the…
Africa Is Running Out of Refined Fuel — And Fast Here is a number that should stop you cold: 86 million tonnes. That is the annual petroleum product shortage Africa is projected to face by 2040, according to the State…
This Is Not Someone Else’s Fight On July 16, 2026, residents of Ol Kalou armed themselves with whatever they had and chased away vehicles carrying hooded gunmen who attempted to storm a polling station at AC Primary School. Let that…
Picture this: it is early morning in Ol Kalou, a constituency most Kenyans associate with the cold highland air and the mountains of potatoes, carrots and cabbages that keep the country fed. Voters have risen before dawn, queued patiently outside…
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…
