Inside Shabaab’s Fight to Control Covid Narrative
The Health ministry sounds like a broken record to Kenyans after nearly two years of Covid updates, except on the Kenya-Somalia border, where al...
Old Scores Fuel Farmaajo Ambitions Perceiving Kenya as Stumbling Block
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Farmaajo’s ambitions are partly fuelled by his political upbringing. He is following the same route as Siad Barre, who was his clansman.
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‘If They Die, We All Die’: Drought Kills in Kenya
The withered carcasses of livestock are reminders that drought has descended yet again in northern Kenya, the latest in a series of climate shocks...
Kenya: DARE 1 Internet Cable Reaches Mombasa
DARE 1 partners already have put plans in place to have the cable linked to Somaliland port city of Berbera and the region after...
Health Economist Edwine Barasa’s Researches Help Kenya Cope with the Pandemic
In 2007, Kenyan health economist Edwine Barasa had a long layover at Heathrow Airport. A fervent supporter of the London-based soccer club Arsenal, he...
Ruto Pledges to Build Kenya-Tanzania Gas Pipeline
Kenya intends to press on with the building of a natural gas pipeline from Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam, to its coastal city...
Kenya: Kenyatta Family Linked to Scandal of Tax-sheltered Offshore Accounts, Companies
Uhuru and six members of his family secretly owned a network of offshore companies.
President Uhuru Kenyatta's family has been linked to a freshly released...
Somalia Accuses Kenya, Djibouti Ahead of AUPSC Meeting on Situation
Only a couple of days after it asked the African Union to mediate in the election impassé it has largely created, and, perhaps, sensing...
Kenya, Somaliland Talks Bear Fruit as Liaison Office Opens in Hargeisa
Kenya has opened a liaison in Somaliland, a year after the two countries opened talks on collaboration.
In a letter dated September 2, the Ministry of...
John Magufuli: A Leader Who at the Start was “Everything Kenya Desired But Didn’t...
Kenyan writer Richard Oduor Oduku reflects on Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli’s complex leadership record and chequered legacy.
John Pombe Magufuli, over the first years...