A 17-Year-Old Went to Pick Up His School Uniform. His Mother Found Him in a Mortuary, Listed as Unidentified. Nanyuki, Kenya — Lucy Kagure spent two days searching hospitals and police stations for her missing son. She found him in…
The Women Feeding Kenya Are Being Left Out of the Policies That Affect Them Most Women smallholder farmers grow the food on your table. They manage the land while climate change dismantles everything they’ve built. And yet, when governments sit…
South Africa’s Police Are Eating Themselves — And It Should Terrify You Fourteen senior South African Police Service officers are now suspended. A businessman allegedly linked to organized crime sits in a jail cell. And a R360 million (approximately KSh…
Africa Has Everything. Africans Have Nothing to Show for It. Let’s be honest about something that should make every young Kenyan furious: this continent holds 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land, supplies the cobalt in your smartphone, the…
SPAR Is Bleeding in Court — And Calling It Normal SPAR Group, one of Kenya’s and South Africa’s most recognisable retail giants, is drowning in litigation. More than 20 court cases. Fraud allegations against senior executives. A R1.6 billion software…
A Court Finally Said What Survivors Already Know A High Court judge has done what too many courts across Africa refuse to do — called out victim-blaming in a rape case by name and rejected it from the record. Acting…
Tax Criminals Are Winning. Here’s Why That Should Terrify You. South Africa is hemorrhaging R100 billion every year to illicit trade — and for decades, the government’s response has been little more than a slap on the wrist. Now, a…
A Union’s Alleged Mistake. Twenty Years of Service. Gone in a Day. On December 17, 2024, nineteen Golden Arrow Bus Services inspectors were handed dismissal letters — days before Christmas — after participating in a strike they were told was…
A Seven-Day Ultimatum the Government Cannot Afford to Ignore Kenyans walked to work for two straight days. Four people died. Over 700 were arrested. And after all that, the government cut diesel prices by just 10 shillings. Transport operators called…
When 90% of women healthcare workers witness sexual harassment and 30% face sexual assault from colleagues, we’re not looking at isolated incidents. We’re staring down a systemic rot that infects Kenya’s medical profession from top to bottom. New research published…
