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…
Seventeen Catholic pilgrims are dead. The road that killed them has a body count that keeps growing. And the government has known about it for years. The stretch of the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway around Mlima Kiu, near a town ironically named…
Mobile money giants M-Pesa and Airtel Money will be legally required to immediately disclose cyber incidents — including mobile money fraud and hacking attacks — to the Central Bank of Kenya under sweeping new regulatory proposals designed to protect millions…
A 19-year-old student now lies in a hospital bed with a bullet in his leg. One person is dead. Six police officers are injured. And somewhere in the hills of Transmara, the Kilima Pesa gold mining site sits silent —…
