The last quarter of 2025 jolted Kenya’s political landscape like no other; Raila Odinga, arguably Kenya’s most visible politician in the last three decades, joined his ancestors on the morning of ...

The United Nations declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids to celebrate the contribution of camelids to food security, nutrition, economic growth, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Over ...

Every day, Grace* sits in people’s homes and asks them questions that range from the odd to the intrusive. What type of toilet do you use? What is your roof made of? Do you own a radio? She helps the ...

Micere Githae Mugo is undoubtedly one of Africa’s foremost poets of distinction. Her iconic status as an activist, scholar and creative artist spans the colonial and post-independence era of Kenya’s ...

On March 3, 2025, a short video went viral on TikTok, captioned “Get ready with me to go for stranger removal.” The two-minute clip amassed more than 90k+ views, likes, comments, and shares. The video ...

This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. On an early morning in February, 23-year-old Suzan Akello was found lying dead on a veranda outside a house she had visited in Namataala, ...

At the reception area of Anniversary Towers, the headquarters of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), the body tasked with organising elections in Kenya, I deliver a letter ...

There is a port on the Gulf of Aden that empires keep finding indispensable. Berbera, on the coast of what is today Somaliland, has served for three centuries as a barometer of great-power ambition in ...

In April of 2023, two factions of the Sudanese armed forces, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), began attacking each other in the capital city of Khartoum ...

An estimated hundred+ million euros of EU taxpayers’ money, intended to support democratic elections in five African countries, has instead strengthened autocratic and corrupt leaders in these ...

A couple of weeks ago, I had guests from a neighbouring East African country that had just gone through a bruising presidential electioneering campaign period. They couldn’t fail to notice that even ...

When Eric Mutua left his home on the morning of March 6, 2026, he hoped to return to his family later in the day. He never did. Caught in heavy rains while on the road, his life was claimed by floods, ...