The doyen of Kenya’s opposition politics and an aspirant for the African Union Commission (AUC) chairmanship, Raila Odinga, recently hit the government hard, sparking a backlash that is sure to hang around for some time. Speaking at a Nairobi slum where the…

Kenya’s 2010 Constitution raised to at least degree level the minimum requirement for most elective positions. By then, possession of a first degree was already a requirement for some formal job positions, while those with lesser qualifications still found their space, especially…

Navigating around Kenya’s major towns can be quite a challenge. Whether self-driving, riding on a private taxi, the bigger public commuter vehicles or a motorcycle (boda boda), or even walking on foot, one must contend with the lawlessness that rules the roads,…

he April 4, 2024 expulsion Ethiopia’s Ambassador Muktar Mohammed from Somalia did not come as a surprise. The nerves between the two neighbours have remained raw since late last year when Addis Ababa penned a sea access deal with the breakaway Somaliland,…

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta once threw his hands in the air dejectedly, wondering what the Auditor General Edward Ouko wanted him to do about corruption in Kenya.  He would later reveal that the Kenyan economy was losing at least $14.3 million every…

The worst-affected regions, the main causes and the magnitude may differ, but famine is hardly ever a new phenomenon in South Sudan. Indeed, the state that came into existence only in 2011 and is, in the highest probability, bound to be part…

Once thriving, prosperous and full of promise, the private media industry in Kenya today is literally grasping for breath.  From the oldest, the Standard Group, to the hitherto most profitable, the Nation Media Group (NMG), gloom looms large. The modus operandi today…

 With all the insecurity in Kenya, why would a government risk lives for a doomed mission? In a rare gesture of bravery, people with disabilities on March 6, 2024 came out in their numbers in one of Kenya’s President William Ruto’s political…

He burst on to the scene like a dynamite, acting with speed and alacrity that soon convinced many that he could be the antidote to Ethiopia, a country so devastated by decades of tyrannical rule. Abiy was taking over in 2018 from…