The Fire the Government Undercounted Mount Kenya has been on fire since September 1. Not a small, contained brush fire — a roaring, spreading crisis that has consumed 8,700 hectares of irreplaceable moorland, according to conservation organisation Rhino Ark. That…
The Mountain Is Not for Sale Rigathi Gachagua is not whispering anymore. The impeached former Deputy President, now leading the Democracy for Citizens Party, stood in Nyeri County last week and delivered a message with the bluntness of someone who…
The clock is ticking, and William Ruto knows it. With the next general election drawing closer by the month, Kenya’s president finds himself in a politically suffocating position: he built his brand on the hustler narrative — the promise that…
Schools are about to reopen, and thousands of Kenyan children — especially those in arid and semi-arid lands — are not going back. Not because they don’t want to. Because they are hungry, they have no uniforms, no bedding, no…
When the patriarch dies, the real war begins They built empires spanning thousands of acres, commanded political influence that stretched from Nairobi to the North Rift, and left behind fortunes that most Kenyans will never see in ten lifetimes. But…
Gianni Infantino is in the fight of his life. UEFA is threatening legal action. Norway’s federation wants him out. England’s FA has pulled its backing for his re-election. And a collapsed plan to bring private investors into FIFA’s commercial operations…
Sophia Wanjiku is up at 4 am. She doesn’t have a choice. By the time Nairobi’s streets begin to fill, she is already deep into her first batch of mandazis, standing over a hot jiko, watching oil shimmer in an…
Three hundred politicians walked into a Naivasha retreat this week, and President William Ruto made one thing unmistakably clear: losing the 2027 General Election is simply not on the table. This is not a campaign slogan. This is a directive…
A town that used to roar There was a time when Mumias meant something. The machines hummed, the money flowed, and parents paid school fees off the back of sugarcane. That town is gone now — hollowed out by what…
Picture this: a powerful anti-corruption chief is appointed quietly, without public process, without explanation, without so much as a press release that tells you why this particular person deserves this particular job. Three years later, she is the subject of…
