The Lie Machine Is Running at Full Speed There is a politician — prominent enough to command an audience, reckless enough to abuse it — who is currently telling Kikuyus that the Kenya Revenue Authority’s ongoing tax amnesty is a…
Over 106,000 village elders across Kenya just got a seat at the government’s table — and a monthly stipend to go with it. President William Ruto, speaking before more than 10,000 elders gathered at State House Nairobi on Tuesday, announced…
What exactly happened to Dr Victoria Mutiso? Dr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso, a psychiatrist, is dead. She was shot and killed in Nairobi, and the investigation into her murder is now pulling in an entire family, a stolen fleet of cars,…
Within hours of President William Ruto unveiling Vision 2060, the broad-based government’s political machinery was already in overdrive. Leaders fanned out across Suba North, Mbeere North, Nyamira, Homa Bay, and parts of Western Kenya — all singing from the same…
A leading Kenyan mental health researcher was assassinated in broad daylight on a Tuesday morning in Nairobi — two shots to the head, a waiting motorcycle, a getaway car already in position. This was not random. Someone planned this meticulously,…
The Question Nobody in the Opposition Wants to Answer “Ruto must go” is a slogan. It is not a plan. And for millions of young Kenyans who poured into the streets in 2024, watched their peers get shot, and still…
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…
