The Pump Is No Longer the Point Something is quietly reshaping the way Kenyans spend their money, and it is happening right there at the petrol station. The fuel stop you make on your way to work is no longer…
A Body in Athi River, a Husband Gone Missing It was May 9, 2024, when the body of Sheila Odoyo was discovered inside her house in Athi River. She was dead. Her husband was nowhere to be found. That disappearance…
The Plan That Could Rewrite How Power Works in Your City South Africa’s Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has released a 192-page White Paper on Local Government reform, and if you care about why your municipality can’t fix…
Picture a politician standing before a crowd in Mt Kenya, chest out, microphone in hand, declaring that he speaks for the region. He hasn’t consulted the youth. He hasn’t addressed unemployment, the mental health crisis quietly swallowing young men in…
A corporate giant walked into Kenya’s highest court and walked out empty-handed. That should tell you something. Two Decades, One Golf Course, No Easy Answers For over twenty years, Kakuzi Plc — the Murang’a-based agricultural heavyweight whose name is synonymous…
An 18-storey building collapsed in Eastleigh, Nairobi, and the more investigators dig, the worse the picture gets — because this building had absolutely no business being built in the first place. No construction approval from the Nairobi County government. No…
This Is What Impunity Looks Like A child was snatched from Eastleigh in broad daylight, smuggled across three countries, tortured on camera, and his family was made to watch. Then they were asked to pay for it. This is not…
Why are fuel prices suddenly a political emergency? Petrol hit R30.28 per litre in October. Diesel climbed to R33.29. And more increases were already lined up for November. For millions of South Africans — and by extension, Kenyans watching a…
Picture a senior government official sitting in a county office, stripped of his budget, ignored on WhatsApp, and watching his junior officers handle work that was constitutionally his — yet still showing up every day, leading street operations, waiting for…
South Africa’s National Treasury is moving to make fiscal discipline a legal obligation, not just a policy preference. This is not a small bureaucratic shuffle. It is, by Treasury’s own description, “the most extensive reconfiguration of the public finance system…
