When the Vehicles We Trust Become the Threat We Fear South Africa’s National Consumer Commission has announced safety recalls affecting 879 vehicles — and if you think this is just another bureaucratic notice buried in government paperwork, think again. This…
Picture the border town of Tororo, a place where the line between Uganda and Kenya is less a hard boundary and more a lived daily negotiation — where families straddle two nations, where language blurs, where the question of belonging…
The Vote Is Just the Beginning Here is what nobody in power wants you to understand about coalitions: they are not a sign of democracy maturing. In most cases, they are a backroom deal dressed up in the language of…
On May 23, 2024, David Muriithi Miano woke up to find money gone from not one, but two of his savings accounts at Fortune Sacco. He had never signed up for mobile banking. He had never authorised a single transaction.…
A man who once commanded some of South Africa’s most powerful law enforcement operations is sitting in a prison cell in Pretoria, fighting to get out on bail. Shadrack Sibiya, the suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner, returns to the Randburg…
Picture this: it is Wednesday morning, the pump attendant replaces the numbers on the board, and just like that, the price of 95 unleaded petrol clears R30.25 per litre in Gauteng. A R3.33 jump, overnight, without warning, without apology. For…
Kenya has confirmed its first Ebola case, and if you think this is just another government press release to scroll past, you need to stop and pay attention — because what happens in the next few weeks will determine whether…
Kenya’s Roads Are Killing Us, and the Numbers Aren’t Going Down The National Transport and Safety Authority has identified more than 270 road crash black spots across Kenya, with 199 of them concentrated along the Mombasa-Malaba Northern Corridor — even…
Kenya’s coffee sector just posted its best numbers in years. Sh41 billion. Forty-seven million kilogrammes. A 15 percent jump from the previous year’s Sh35.6 billion. On paper, this looks like a win. But if you’re a smallholder farmer in Meru…
For years, Africa has watched its own crises unfold while the world debated who should intervene, how fast, and under whose authority. The African Standby Force was supposed to be the answer — a homegrown, continent-wide rapid response mechanism that…
