Kenya

Between February and March 2024, approximately 1.9 million people required humanitarian assistance, while 847,000 children under five faced acute malnutrition. Kenya's food import dependency reached 15.5 percent in 2022, up from 13.4 percent the previous...

Kenya’s street families, including thousands of children, face extreme deprivation, and society’s neglect fuels survival-driven behaviors often mistaken for criminality. Lack of compassion and support from citizens, parents, and authorities worsens their plight, straining social...

Many remain in denial, unable to accept that Baba as millions affectionately called him will no longer walk among us. But such is the nature of death: it takes whom it will, when it...

From the dark dungeons of Nyayo House to the grand podiums of continental summits, Raila’s life was a defiance of chains. Raila is gone, but in Prof. Okoth’s words, he becomes immortal, a storm, a...

Education policy in Kenya is often driven by slogans and electoral timelines rather than by a sustained national strategy. The government must stop treating education like a vote-harvesting gimmick. Policy must be grounded in realism...

Political promises change with each election, but national development must be anchored in continuity. Development goals should be negotiated and agreed upon across political lines. History won’t remember our manifestos. It will remember what we built...

The issue at hand is not just about budgets and numbers; it is about Kenya’s moral, constitutional, and developmental obligation to provide quality, accessible education to every child. Parliament must revisit and restore the full...

This precedent established what constitutional scholars call the "rights-protective approach" to constitutional interpretation, where courts lean toward expanding rather than restricting fundamental rights. Unlike the minimalist approach taken by some constitutions, which simply guarantee "freedom...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which supplies over 70% of global cobalt production, bears witness to ecological decimation on an industrial scale, with vast tracts of land stripped for mineral access and waterways...

With an illustrious media career spanning over 30 years, Josephine Karani has left an indelible mark on Kenya’s broadcasting history. Throughout her time at KBC, Karani directed and produced numerous programs that tackled critical social...