There is a political war brewing in Siaya County, and it has nothing to do with policy. It is personal. It is loud. And if you have been paying attention, you already know that Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi is done…
A Promise That Hasn’t Reached Everyone President Ruto stood at State House and made a vow to the nation: the government would compensate victims of state violence during the Gen Z protests. It sounded historic. It sounded like accountability. But…
Kenya’s Junior Starlets walked into South Africa’s backyard and took exactly what they came for. This is not a lucky result — it is a statement. In a first-leg qualifier played in Pretoria, the Junior Starlets delivered the kind of…
Something has died inside the Orange Democratic Movement, and most of its leaders are too comfortable to notice — or too complicit to care. The party that once defined opposition politics in Kenya, that carried the weight of millions of…
What is actually happening here? President William Ruto is being forced — not choosing — to reshuffle his Cabinet. A court order has made it inevitable, and that distinction matters enormously. This is not a voluntary act of political goodwill…
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 5, 2026 — Faith Kipyegon, the woman who has made winning feel like a birthright, finished third in the women’s mile at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, United States, on Saturday night — her first defeat of…
Picture this: a parliamentary committee, weeks from submitting its final report, sitting across from some of the most powerful law enforcement figures in the country — and the air is thick with accusations of cartels, illegal directives, and officials who…
Kenya just secured a Ksh161.8 billion (USD 1.25 billion) loan from the World Bank — but the money did not come easy, and it did not come free of conditions. The central thesis here is straightforward: this loan is not…
There is a particular kind of silence that descends on a country before its press is broken. You don’t hear it coming. You feel it — in the hesitation of an editor before publishing, in the self-censorship of a journalist…
The Movement That Rattled the State Is Now Fighting Itself Picture this: a political movement born from the raw fury of Kenya’s Gen Z uprising, one that had the establishment visibly nervous, now turning its energy inward — arguing, fracturing,…
