Picture this: a 19-18 loss. One basket. One moment. That’s the margin by which Kenya’s Under-23 men’s 3×3 basketball team were eliminated from their opening game at the FIBA 3×3 U23 World Cup in Wuhan, China. Algeria edged them in…
On June 25, 2026, thousands of Nairobians woke up to find their city locked down. Thika Road, Mombasa Road, Waiyaki Way — all barricaded by police ahead of events marking the second anniversary of the 2024 Finance Bill protests. No…
A New Kind of Pressure Picture this: you are a South African executive, a boardroom veteran who built your career navigating the post-apartheid economy, championing Black Economic Empowerment as both a moral imperative and a business strategy. Now, whispers are…
There is something quietly extraordinary about a group of teenage girls from Kenya preparing to face China and the United States on a World Cup stage, and something deeply frustrating about the fact that some of them aren’t even allowed…
Aaron Cheruiyot didn’t come to the Ura Gate Cultural Festival to dance around politics. The Senate Majority Leader walked into Tharaka-Nithi country with a direct message for the Meru community: stop worrying about whether Deputy President Kithure Kindiki will be…
Here is something the financial headlines won’t tell you plainly: Kenya’s Central Bank just walked away from Sh31.2 billion — real money, sitting on the table — because the investors offering it wanted too much in return. That decision, made…
Here is the truth that most young Kenyans refuse to sit with: the 2027 General Election will be decided not just by who votes, but by who registered early enough to vote. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has…
While most of the world slept, something significant happened over Ukrainian skies — a brand-new, homegrown anti-drone weapon locked onto an Iranian-designed Shahed drone and destroyed it. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed the hit in his nightly video address, and if…
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…
An Artist Opens His World Coster Ojwang’ didn’t just hang paintings on a wall. He cracked open his entire life — his grief, his Luo identity, his Nairobi hustle, his faith, his dead mother — and invited strangers in to…
