Something ugly has been unfolding on the streets of Nairobi, and it did not start by accident. When President William Ruto issued a directive on September 2 restricting foreigners from certain forms of small-scale trade, it did not just set…
Kenya’s Parliament is tightening its grip on public spending. The Budget and Appropriations Committee convened this week to interrogate Controller of Budget Dr. Margaret Nyakang’o on the state of the FY 2025/26 national budget — and what emerged was a…
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…
Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna delivered a pointed rebuke to President William Ruto on the floor of the Senate, dismissing the Head of State’s charge that the united opposition has no policy agenda ahead of the 2027 General Election — and…
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…
A new French ambassador has landed in Nairobi, and the question worth asking is not who he is replacing — but what he is walking into. Wadid Benaabou has been appointed France’s new Ambassador-designate to Kenya, succeeding Arnaud Suquet, who…
What exactly is happening to data centres right now? Governments across the world are pulling the brakes on new data centre construction — and they are doing it fast. From New York to Amsterdam to Dublin, regulators are freezing permits,…
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…
What exactly happened here? Nine suspects are now in custody. Among them: senior officials from Kenya’s National Treasury. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) arrested them over a Ksh.1.569 billion fraud that gutted a programme designed to help small-scale farmers…
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…
