A leading Kenyan mental health researcher was assassinated in broad daylight on a Tuesday morning in Nairobi — two shots to the head, a waiting motorcycle, a getaway car already in position. This was not random. Someone planned this meticulously,…
The Question Nobody in the Opposition Wants to Answer “Ruto must go” is a slogan. It is not a plan. And for millions of young Kenyans who poured into the streets in 2024, watched their peers get shot, and still…
The Government Wants Supermarkets to Police Manufacturers. Retailers Say That’s Not Their Job. Every morning, lorries roll into supermarket loading bays across Kenya carrying thousands of factory-sealed products — cooking oil, bottled water, packaged foods, detergents. Retail clerks count boxes,…
There is a murder at the heart of this story. Agnes Wanjiru, a young Kenyan woman, was killed. British soldiers have been implicated. And for years, nothing happened — no accountability, no justice, no acknowledgment from the very foreign military…
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 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…
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…
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 —…
Something has shifted in Kenya. Not quietly, not gradually, but unmistakably. A political culture that for decades has relied on routine campaign tours, carefully managed public appearances, and the assumption of unquestioned authority is encountering a citizenry that is increasingly…
William Ruto just got embarrassed in Ol Kalou, and every political strategist in Nairobi knows what that means. The President, who built his brand on hustler energy and grassroots momentum, watched helplessly as Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP)…
