The Kenyan government has disbursed Sh1.014 billion in compensation to 1,083 victims of human rights violations — covering deaths, injuries, sexual violence and economic losses — sustained during demonstrations and public protests, the Panel of Experts on Compensation of Victims…
For over a decade, the Dangote refinery was a promise. A massive, expensive, politically loaded promise that many Nigerians quietly doubted would ever be fulfilled. Then, in 2024, it started producing fuel — and suddenly, Africa’s most audacious infrastructure bet…
A Farm Wiped Out Overnight Peter Gitonga Kimani had 156 pigs. He had a plan. He was holding his stock until mid-term, waiting for the market price to peak, calculating the kind of return that takes years of grinding work…
Since mid-May 2026, African Swine Fever has torn through Kiambu County’s pig farms with devastating speed, killing more than 1,470 animals across over 20 farms. If you think this is just a farming story, think again — this outbreak strikes…
There is something almost theatrical about Kenyan politics — the way alliances shift like sand, loyalties evaporate overnight, and yesterday’s enemy becomes today’s running mate. So when Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi stood before a crowd in Tharaka Nithi County…
If you’ve ever tried to book a flight from Nairobi to Lagos, or Accra to Addis Ababa, you already know the painful truth: flying within Africa is absurdly expensive, and in many cases, it forces you to transit through London…
Kenya’s Parliament is tightening its grip on public spending. The Budget and Appropriations Committee convened this week to interrogate Controller of Budget Dr. Margaret Nyakang’o on the state of the FY 2025/26 national budget — and what emerged was a…
Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna delivered a pointed rebuke to President William Ruto on the floor of the Senate, dismissing the Head of State’s charge that the united opposition has no policy agenda ahead of the 2027 General Election — and…
What exactly happened here? Nine suspects are now in custody. Among them: senior officials from Kenya’s National Treasury. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) arrested them over a Ksh.1.569 billion fraud that gutted a programme designed to help small-scale farmers…
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…
