The Money Was Supposed to Go Elsewhere Kenya’s National Treasury is facing serious scrutiny after it emerged that Sh30 billion borrowed through a Eurobond issuance last year was quietly redirected to cover shortfalls in domestic borrowing — a move that…
Voters Defy Chaos to Deliver a Landslide The people of Ol Kalou spoke — loudly, clearly, and in defiance of everything thrown at them. Opposition party DCP’s Douglas Kamau Waweru won the constituency’s parliamentary by-election with 35,440 votes, crushing UDA’s…
There is a moment in every political fight when the people stop listening to the noise and make their own statement. In Ol Kalou on Thursday, that moment arrived — loudly, unmistakably, and in a way that should make every…
A Contract, A Promise, and a Country Watching Closely Picture this: you land at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya’s supposed crown jewel of aviation, and you are immediately greeted by overcrowded terminals, ageing infrastructure, and the quiet humiliation of watching…
Picture this: it is early morning in Ol Kalou, a constituency most Kenyans associate with the cold highland air and the mountains of potatoes, carrots and cabbages that keep the country fed. Voters have risen before dawn, queued patiently outside…
Let’s be honest — nobody who watched this match will sleep easily tonight. Argentina, the reigning world champions, did what Argentina always seem to do: they waited, they absorbed, and then, when England dared to believe, they struck with the…
Two Presidents, One Table, and a Continent Watching President Cyril Ramaphosa and Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah are sitting down in Pretoria for the fourth South Africa-Namibia Bi-National Commission — and this meeting is bigger than a diplomatic photo opportunity. It…
A Prison, a Nickname, and Years of Silence Before the International Criminal Court shut down his legal escape route, Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri was simply known inside Mitiga prison as “the angel of death.” That nickname was not handed…
A man is dead. Nine motorcycles are ash. A police vehicle is wrecked. And two competing narratives about what happened this weekend are now circling each other like fighters before a brawl. The thesis here is simple and uncomfortable: Kenya’s…
Somalia is about to choose its next president, and the stakes could not be higher. Four names are dominating political conversations in Mogadishu right now — former presidents Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, former Prime Minister Abdi Farah…
