Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna delivered a pointed rebuke to President William Ruto on the floor of the Senate, dismissing the Head of State’s charge that the united opposition has no policy agenda ahead of the 2027 General Election — and…
The Fire the Government Undercounted Mount Kenya has been on fire since September 1. Not a small, contained brush fire — a roaring, spreading crisis that has consumed 8,700 hectares of irreplaceable moorland, according to conservation organisation Rhino Ark. That…
A new French ambassador has landed in Nairobi, and the question worth asking is not who he is replacing — but what he is walking into. Wadid Benaabou has been appointed France’s new Ambassador-designate to Kenya, succeeding Arnaud Suquet, who…
What exactly is happening to data centres right now? Governments across the world are pulling the brakes on new data centre construction — and they are doing it fast. From New York to Amsterdam to Dublin, regulators are freezing permits,…
The Mountain Is Not for Sale Rigathi Gachagua is not whispering anymore. The impeached former Deputy President, now leading the Democracy for Citizens Party, stood in Nyeri County last week and delivered a message with the bluntness of someone who…
What exactly happened here? Nine suspects are now in custody. Among them: senior officials from Kenya’s National Treasury. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) arrested them over a Ksh.1.569 billion fraud that gutted a programme designed to help small-scale farmers…
The Defection Nobody Should Be Surprised By Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro has formally crossed the floor — and he didn’t do it on impulse. For nearly a full year, he was quietly meeting with some of Kenya’s most formidable opposition…
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has summoned Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma to appear before it and answer for remarks he made at a political gathering in Homa Bay County last week, in which he appeared to…
The clock is ticking, and William Ruto knows it. With the next general election drawing closer by the month, Kenya’s president finds himself in a politically suffocating position: he built his brand on the hustler narrative — the promise that…
Schools are about to reopen, and thousands of Kenyan children — especially those in arid and semi-arid lands — are not going back. Not because they don’t want to. Because they are hungry, they have no uniforms, no bedding, no…
