Picture the border town of Tororo, a place where the line between Uganda and Kenya is less a hard boundary and more a lived daily negotiation — where families straddle two nations, where language blurs, where the question of belonging…
The Vote Is Just the Beginning Here is what nobody in power wants you to understand about coalitions: they are not a sign of democracy maturing. In most cases, they are a backroom deal dressed up in the language of…
Kenya’s Roads Are Killing Us, and the Numbers Aren’t Going Down The National Transport and Safety Authority has identified more than 270 road crash black spots across Kenya, with 199 of them concentrated along the Mombasa-Malaba Northern Corridor — even…
Seventeen Catholic pilgrims are dead. The road that killed them has a body count that keeps growing. And the government has known about it for years. The stretch of the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway around Mlima Kiu, near a town ironically named…
Mobile money giants M-Pesa and Airtel Money will be legally required to immediately disclose cyber incidents — including mobile money fraud and hacking attacks — to the Central Bank of Kenya under sweeping new regulatory proposals designed to protect millions…
Let’s be honest about what happened in Conakry on Thursday night. Kenya’s Harambee Stars lost 1-0 to Guinea in a 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier, and head coach Benni McCarthy is not staying quiet about it. He shouldn’t. Because…
At 2am on a rural road in Mwea, Catherine Mwende Njeru and her husband Anthony Muturi were doing something completely ordinary — waiting for a boda boda to take them to their farm in Rupingazi to irrigate crops and pick…
Kenya lost. Again. But does it actually matter? Thursday night in Conakry, the Harambee Stars walked into the Stade du 28 Septembre and came out with nothing. Guinea’s Serhou Guirassy — one of Europe’s most clinical strikers — needed just…
The Money Is Already Moving Before a single barrel of oil flows through the proposed Lamu refinery, the contracts are already flying — and the early winners are not Kenyan firms. The Sh2.1 trillion Dangote Industries refinery project, designed to…
Here is a question worth sitting with: what happens to the information you give the government? You report a suspicious pattern in your estate, a stranger asking the wrong questions, a vehicle that keeps circling the block. You tell someone…
