Dramatic changes, reconciliations, and fallouts that would make a telenovela blush are what Kenyan politics are all about The landscape is changing again today as President William Ruto is publicly ...

Ahead of the 2027 polls, Kenya is seeing a sharp rise in political goonism, with organised groups of youths intimidating and attacking opponents, blocking roads and disrupting rallies. This trend, ...

In June, a series of protests led by young people and others frustrated with regressive tax reforms and police brutality swept Kenya. Its Left Alliance played a role in organizing these protests, and ...

Raila Amolo Odinga, who died on 15 October 2025, aged 80, ran five times for the Kenyan presidency but didn’t win. Yet he became a statesman of enormous influence, whose political and humanitarian ...

Instead of chasing popularity, the president has spent the last three years quietly locking down the electoral map, something far more decisive. Through power-sharing, elite co-option, targeted ...

One of the markers of Kenyan statesman Raila Odinga was not just his courage in challenging the establishment but his ability to fortify it when circumstances demanded. An example was his willingness ...