The Heist Nobody Was Supposed to Notice South Africa’s Passenger Rail Agency (Prasa) has handed more than R1 billion in public funds to politically connected security companies linked to ANC stalwart Paul Langa — bypassing competitive tenders, ignoring court orders,…
Your phone loses signal. A verification code pops up that you never asked for. Then WhatsApp kicks you out. By the time you figure out what happened, someone wearing your digital face has already texted your closest contacts asking for…
The Numbers Don’t Lie — But the Government Hopes You Won’t Notice Kenya’s inflation hit 6.5 percent in July — the second-highest reading in two and a half years. That figure sounds clinical, bureaucratic, distant. It isn’t. It is the…
Within hours of President William Ruto unveiling Vision 2060, the broad-based government’s political machinery was already in overdrive. Leaders fanned out across Suba North, Mbeere North, Nyamira, Homa Bay, and parts of Western Kenya — all singing from the same…
The Starlets are in serious trouble. Kenya’s 1-0 loss to Senegal in Rabat on Thursday night has pushed their 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final dream to the very edge of extinction, and only a near-miraculous chain of events…
Kenya’s WAFCON dream is not dead. But it is barely breathing. Harambee Starlets fell 1-0 to Senegal on Thursday, their second consecutive defeat at the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, leaving them pointless at the bottom of Group A…
Armed conflict doesn’t stay where it starts. And if the Congolese community in Kenya is right, the war devastating eastern DRC has quietly extended its reach into Nairobi’s churches, streets and refugee spaces — right under the Kenyan government’s nose.…
Something significant is coming to Nairobi this October, and it’s not another donor-funded conference where officials shake hands, take photos, and fly home with nothing changed. The Africa Commerce and Industry Summit — ACIS 2026 — is shaping up to…
The African Union is in crisis — and not just because of the wars, disease, and terrorism eating at the continent’s edges. The deeper crisis is one of dependency, and a few voices at last week’s AU Executive Council session…
The Numbers Don’t Lie — And Neither Does Your Empty Stomach Here is the uncomfortable truth: across Africa, governments are failing to feed their people, and the statistics coming out of South Africa right now are a warning siren that…
