Kenya has confirmed its first Ebola case, and if you think this is just another government press release to scroll past, you need to stop and pay attention — because what happens in the next few weeks will determine whether…
Kenya’s Roads Are Killing Us, and the Numbers Aren’t Going Down The National Transport and Safety Authority has identified more than 270 road crash black spots across Kenya, with 199 of them concentrated along the Mombasa-Malaba Northern Corridor — even…
Kenya’s coffee sector just posted its best numbers in years. Sh41 billion. Forty-seven million kilogrammes. A 15 percent jump from the previous year’s Sh35.6 billion. On paper, this looks like a win. But if you’re a smallholder farmer in Meru…
For years, Africa has watched its own crises unfold while the world debated who should intervene, how fast, and under whose authority. The African Standby Force was supposed to be the answer — a homegrown, continent-wide rapid response mechanism that…
Seventeen Catholic pilgrims are dead. The road that killed them has a body count that keeps growing. And the government has known about it for years. The stretch of the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway around Mlima Kiu, near a town ironically named…
Mobile money giants M-Pesa and Airtel Money will be legally required to immediately disclose cyber incidents — including mobile money fraud and hacking attacks — to the Central Bank of Kenya under sweeping new regulatory proposals designed to protect millions…
A 19-year-old student now lies in a hospital bed with a bullet in his leg. One person is dead. Six police officers are injured. And somewhere in the hills of Transmara, the Kilima Pesa gold mining site sits silent —…
Picture a tout hanging off the door of a matatu on Ngong Road, wind cutting through his jacket, eyes scanning the street for the next passenger. He is not in any tourism brochure. No politician has ever name-dropped him in…
Every single day, Nairobi generates 3,200 tonnes of garbage. Let that number sit with you for a moment. That is not a statistic buried in some government report nobody reads. That is the weight of a city slowly suffocating under…
Let’s be honest about what happened in Conakry on Thursday night. Kenya’s Harambee Stars lost 1-0 to Guinea in a 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier, and head coach Benni McCarthy is not staying quiet about it. He shouldn’t. Because…
