The rains are coming — and the Kenyan government knows exactly which communities stand in the path of disaster. Eighteen counties across the Coast, Lake, North Eastern and Rift Valley regions have been officially flagged as high-risk ahead of the…
The Fire the Government Undercounted Mount Kenya has been on fire since September 1. Not a small, contained brush fire — a roaring, spreading crisis that has consumed 8,700 hectares of irreplaceable moorland, according to conservation organisation Rhino Ark. That…
The Mountain Is Not for Sale Rigathi Gachagua is not whispering anymore. The impeached former Deputy President, now leading the Democracy for Citizens Party, stood in Nyeri County last week and delivered a message with the bluntness of someone who…
The Defection Nobody Should Be Surprised By Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro has formally crossed the floor — and he didn’t do it on impulse. For nearly a full year, he was quietly meeting with some of Kenya’s most formidable opposition…
The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has summoned Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma to appear before it and answer for remarks he made at a political gathering in Homa Bay County last week, in which he appeared to…
Picture this: a former Deputy President, impeached and cast aside, standing in a church in Gatundu South on a Sunday morning, looking straight into the camera and telling William Ruto that the opposition doesn’t need a single shilling from Uhuru…
What exactly did Mudavadi say, and why does it matter to you? Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi stood before more than 6,000 young Kenyans at the PAG Church National Conference in Nyang’ori, Vihiga County, and delivered a message that sounds…
A sitting Member of Parliament walks into a maximum-security prison, allegedly pretending to be something he is not, to meet with suspects linked to a political killings investigation. That is not a plot from a Nairobi thriller. That is what…
The mourning period is over. Now comes the harder part — living up to the legacy. Ten political party leaders visited Mama Ida Odinga at her Nairobi home on Tuesday, pledging to carry forward what they described as the late…
Three hundred politicians walked into a Naivasha retreat this week, and President William Ruto made one thing unmistakably clear: losing the 2027 General Election is simply not on the table. This is not a campaign slogan. This is a directive…
