A Contract, A Promise, and a Country Watching Closely Picture this: you land at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya’s supposed crown jewel of aviation, and you are immediately greeted by overcrowded terminals, ageing infrastructure, and the quiet humiliation of watching…
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…
Let’s be honest — nobody who watched this match will sleep easily tonight. Argentina, the reigning world champions, did what Argentina always seem to do: they waited, they absorbed, and then, when England dared to believe, they struck with the…
Two Presidents, One Table, and a Continent Watching President Cyril Ramaphosa and Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah are sitting down in Pretoria for the fourth South Africa-Namibia Bi-National Commission — and this meeting is bigger than a diplomatic photo opportunity. It…
A Prison, a Nickname, and Years of Silence Before the International Criminal Court shut down his legal escape route, Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri was simply known inside Mitiga prison as “the angel of death.” That nickname was not handed…
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…
Somalia is about to choose its next president, and the stakes could not be higher. Four names are dominating political conversations in Mogadishu right now — former presidents Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, former Prime Minister Abdi Farah…
They did it again. Kenya’s Junior Starlets are heading to a second consecutive FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, and if you slept on this story, you need to wake up right now. It didn’t happen overnight. This journey started months…
The Money Is Real — Now What You Do With It Matters Cabinet Secretary Salim Ruku stood before a packed Kirubia Stadium in Tharaka Nithi County and delivered a message that cut through the usual government fanfare: Ksh.154 million had…
A person is dead. The IEBC has sent investigation teams. Candidates are accused of bribing voters and running illegal midnight campaigns. And the government is handing out gas cylinders and fishing boats days before polling. Whatever happens in Ol Kalou,…
