Here is the uncomfortable truth about Kenyan elections: money wins. It buys rallies, it buys airtime, it buys loyalty, and more often than not, it buys votes. So when the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) launches public hearings on…
There is a murder at the heart of this story. Agnes Wanjiru, a young Kenyan woman, was killed. British soldiers have been implicated. And for years, nothing happened — no accountability, no justice, no acknowledgment from the very foreign military…
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale is in damage control mode. After remarks he made at a community event in Lafey Constituency, Mandera County, ignited a national firestorm, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has launched a formal investigation. Duale’s…
Edwin Sifuna’s Linda Mwananchi tour of Western Kenya has done something remarkable in just a matter of days — it has forced Kenya Kwanza’s heavyweights into a sudden, frantic scramble to defend territory they thought was locked down. Ahead of…
Rigathi Gachagua is not going quietly. That much is clear. While courts deliberate on whether his impeachment stands — and whether he will ever be allowed to contest elective office again — Kenya’s former Deputy President has already made his…
Something is stirring in Bungoma and Trans Nzoia, and it has nothing to do with the usual political theatre that Kenyans have grown numb to. This is different. This feels personal. Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna is heading west, and the…
Why is Sonko campaigning now, three years before the election? Mike Sonko has officially launched the National Empowerment and Development Party’s grassroots campaign in Nairobi, and the timing is deliberate. The first stop was Mugumoini Ward in Lang’ata Constituency —…
Something has shifted in Kenya. Not quietly, not gradually, but unmistakably. A political culture that for decades has relied on routine campaign tours, carefully managed public appearances, and the assumption of unquestioned authority is encountering a citizenry that is increasingly…
This Is Not Someone Else’s Fight On July 16, 2026, residents of Ol Kalou armed themselves with whatever they had and chased away vehicles carrying hooded gunmen who attempted to storm a polling station at AC Primary School. Let that…
William Ruto just got embarrassed in Ol Kalou, and every political strategist in Nairobi knows what that means. The President, who built his brand on hustler energy and grassroots momentum, watched helplessly as Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP)…
