Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale is in damage control mode. After remarks he made at a community event in Lafey Constituency, Mandera County, ignited a national firestorm, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has launched a formal investigation. Duale’s…
The system keeps telling young Kenyans to save more. But what if saving isn’t actually the point right now? The Guilt Trip Nobody Asked For For decades, the financial establishment has pointed fingers at young people and called it wisdom.…
Edwin Sifuna’s Linda Mwananchi tour of Western Kenya has done something remarkable in just a matter of days — it has forced Kenya Kwanza’s heavyweights into a sudden, frantic scramble to defend territory they thought was locked down. Ahead of…
Rigathi Gachagua is not going quietly. That much is clear. While courts deliberate on whether his impeachment stands — and whether he will ever be allowed to contest elective office again — Kenya’s former Deputy President has already made his…
The United States just moved the goalposts again, and this time the justification is forced labour. The Trump administration announced new tariffs of 10% and 12.5% on 60 trading partners — including the European Union — set to kick in…
The United States just made a move that every resource-rich nation, including Kenya, needs to pay close attention to. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding…
Something is stirring in Bungoma and Trans Nzoia, and it has nothing to do with the usual political theatre that Kenyans have grown numb to. This is different. This feels personal. Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna is heading west, and the…
The Opportunity Is Here. The System Isn’t Ready. A furniture maker in Nairobi gets an enquiry from a hotel in Kigali. A fashion retailer in Nakuru pulls a customer in Lusaka through an Instagram post. A Mombasa developer gets a…
Kenya didn’t wait to be invited. It showed up first. When Kenya signed on as a founding member of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) in Shanghai on July 16, 2026, it made a calculated bet that most African…
Why is Sonko campaigning now, three years before the election? Mike Sonko has officially launched the National Empowerment and Development Party’s grassroots campaign in Nairobi, and the timing is deliberate. The first stop was Mugumoini Ward in Lang’ata Constituency —…
