In this first part of the Project Profile investigation into the use of biometrics in the humanitarian sector in Kenya, Farrah Budhul Uleh narrates how famine and desperation led him and his family to ...

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.

President Emmanuel Macron seems to suffer from congenital foot-in-mouth whose outbreaks appear to be triggered by encounters with Africa and Africans. In January 2025, Macron drew a sharp rebuke from ...

This series was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) fellowship. Kenyan citizens who are caught between Kenya’s national registration system and the Profile ...

In this second part of the Project Profile investigation into the use of biometrics in the humanitarian sector, double-registered Kenyans speak of the hardships they endure in their daily lives.

Tax incentives are deductions, exclusions, or exemptions from taxes that are due to the government. They are employed as incentives to draw money flows into desired economic sectors or areas, or to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oral historians researching different Kenyan communities retell stories of seers such as Mugo wa Kibiru, Syokimau, Mbatian, Kimnyole arap Turukat, Orkoiyot Mugeni, Mepoho, and various Luo Jobilo who ...

How does one society’s intellectual elites apply themselves to developing knowledge that distributes prosperity, while another applies the same knowledge to systematically commit at an industrial ...

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 ...