The year 2025 did not mark the arrival of new global challenges so much as the consolidation of existing ones into a more demanding and less forgiving international environment. Across regions, ...

We first heard of Alice at a press conference on 19 January 1987, given by Yoweri Museveni, the man then relatively new to the Ugandan presidency. We’d been summoned to State Lodge in Mbale, at the ...

Dutch growers who dominate the flower sector in Kenya were already in the news because of environmental violations and poor employment conditions. Now, as investigative journalists Romy van der Burgh ...

Corruption, however you define it, is so integral to the way human commercial and political affairs play out that all major global developments in its regard have been driven by geopolitical shifts.

A new story map, Trans-Saharan Route Then and Now, traces this evolution across key nodes — from the Central to the Western and Eastern Trans Sahara Migration Corridor — highlighting how the economic ...

The government has backtracked on a directive that was, ironically, issued by President William Ruto when he was Kenya’s agriculture minister. In 2009, Ruto banned the export of unprocessed macadamia ...

Ten years ago, you telephoned informing me that you were launching a book entitled Kenya@50: Trends, Identities and the Politics of Belonging. The book was interrogating Kenya after 50 years of the ...

At the core of the latest IEBC controversy is the question of whether or not commissioners have a role to play in counting, tallying, verifying, and announcing the presidential results. Public opinion ...

When ambulances arrived to transport to hospital a group of soldiers that had been wounded in a fierce battle between Puntland troops and ISIS, Colonel Mukhtar Ahmed Farah, alias Gagale, a ...

The Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) office is located off Juja road in Nairobi’s Eastlands. It is situated in a single-storeyed building planted right at the edge of Mathare Valley. The building ...

The government’s failure to adopt a labour migration policy has left Kenyan migrant workers in the Gulf region open to abuse, torture and even death. There could be anywhere between 100,000 and ...

You may be familiar with the common myths about drylands—that they contribute little to biodiversity and food systems, that they are unproductive and unworthy of political and economic investment, and ...