This is not a safe, bureaucratic appointment. This is Kenya Rugby Union betting everything on a man who has done nothing but win. On Saturday, October 31, 2026, KRU’s director of leagues and competitions Leslie Mwangale went on Capital FM’s…
A Body in Athi River, a Husband Gone Missing It was May 9, 2024, when the body of Sheila Odoyo was discovered inside her house in Athi River. She was dead. Her husband was nowhere to be found. That disappearance…
An 18-storey building collapsed in Eastleigh, Nairobi, and the more investigators dig, the worse the picture gets — because this building had absolutely no business being built in the first place. No construction approval from the Nairobi County government. No…
Why are fuel prices suddenly a political emergency? Petrol hit R30.28 per litre in October. Diesel climbed to R33.29. And more increases were already lined up for November. For millions of South Africans — and by extension, Kenyans watching a…
South Africa’s National Treasury is moving to make fiscal discipline a legal obligation, not just a policy preference. This is not a small bureaucratic shuffle. It is, by Treasury’s own description, “the most extensive reconfiguration of the public finance system…
The Advisory That Changes Everything The United States just told its citizens to think twice before boarding a plane to Kenya. On October 19, the US Department of State upgraded Kenya’s travel advisory from Level 2 to Level 3 —…
She Didn’t Wait for Permission While most Kenyans were watching the Safari Rally from the sidelines, Pauline Sheghu was behind the wheel — competing, finishing, and doing it again. Now, the continent has taken notice. Sheghu has been named among…
Picture a conference hall in Shanghai, filled with scholars and policymakers from across Africa, Asia and Latin America — people whose countries have spent decades being lectured by Western institutions about the “right” way to develop. Into that room walks…
A New Front in Africa’s War on Organised Crime Angola and Uganda have formally joined South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania in a five-nation regional coalition to crush drug trafficking and transnational organised crime — a move announced on October 16,…
Here is the uncomfortable truth that South Africa’s Agriculture Minister Willie Aucamp is trying to get across before it is too late: the rains that fell in September are not a sign that everything will be fine. They are a…
