Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is one of the most contentious and polarizing issues of our times, in Africa and globally. (Some just call it FGM, but the word ‘mutilation’ is itself ...

In this third part of the Project Profile investigation, Naipanoi Lepapa looks into the development, deployment and use of biometric recognition technology in the humanitarian aid sector in Kenya.

The English Premier League and British football hardly featured notable African players before Arsène Wenger arrived as manager of Arsenal F.C. in 1996. The few high-profile exceptions were Tony ...

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center Artificial Intelligence (AI) fellowship, The Elephant tells the story of double-registered persons as part of Project Profile, over two years of investigations ...

Femicide is the result of politics and policies, and so it is about time that you entered the chat, Mr President. But you need to come correct. Every woman and girl that is murdered because she is ...

I owe Andrew Mtagwaba Kailembo, who has died at the age of 92, a debt of gratitude. News of Andrew’s death on 6 March 2026 took me back to early 1990, when I got my first permanent and pensionable job ...

The streets of Nairobi’s Central Business District are heavy with the smell of tear gas. It is July 11, 2024, and the youth are protesting against corruption and poor governance, the tail end of the ...

Kenya’s economy stands at a crossroads: outwardly resilient, with projected growth hovering around 4.5–5.0 percent and a relatively stable macro‑environment, yet weighed down by persistent fiscal ...

So what does it mean to be young, aspirational, driven, yet caught up in a country with so much potential yet so few results? Who benefits from the structural deficiency built into public life, and ...

A 2026 economic survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.

On the morning of 21 October 1956, Dedan Kimathi was walking near a trench on the edge of the Nyandarua Forest in Nyeri, exhausted and alone, when a Home Guard named Ndirangu Mau shot him in the leg.

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...