Pressure is mounting on Kenyan President William Ruto to take decisive action against government officials and lawmakers accused of owning rogue recruitment agencies that prey on desperate job seekers with phony promises of lucrative jobs overseas. Senators have blown the lid off these schemes, revealing alleged links to high-level figures in the Ministries of Labour…
One year after Kenya scrapped a controversial $1.85 billion airport deal with India’s Adani Group amid strikes and U.S. bribery charges, authorities are pressing ahead with a sweeping government-led revamp of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) this week rolled out its long-awaited Integrated Master Plan 2025-2045, crafted with Dubai-based consultancy…
President Samia Suluhu Hassan spent millions of shillings on a Kenyan public relations firm to repair her image after deadly post-election violence, but the campaign has collapsed and deepened public anger. Failed attempt to rewrite the narrative The contract went through Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service soon after the 29 October vote that sparked nationwide…
David Kimutai Too, the newly elected Orange Democratic Movement member of parliament for Ainamoi, was shot dead in Eldoret on 31 January 2008 in what police described as a crime of passion involving a traffic police officer. Coming only 48 hours after the killing of another opposition MP, the incident deepened the post-election crisis and…
In a fiercely contested by-election that doubled as a battle for supremacy in Mount Kenya region, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki masterminded a dramatic comeback for United Democratic Alliance, snatching victory from a formidable coalition led by his impeached predecessor Rigathi Gachagua. The 27 November poll in the semi-arid Mbeere North constituency saw UDA candidate Leonard…
After more than three decades of de facto independence, Somaliland is intensifying its diplomatic push for international recognition, buoyed by high-level United States engagements, regional partnerships and strategic appeals amid shifting geopolitics in the Horn of Africa. The self-declared Republic of Somaliland seceded from Somalia in 1991 after a devastating civil war, establishing its own…
As Senegal grapples with a mounting debt crisis, the West African nation’s new government is digging in its heels against a painful debt restructuring demanded by the International Monetary Fund, betting instead on aggressive domestic reforms to steer the economy back to stability. But with hidden debts now estimated at over USD 11 billion and…
In a fiery post on his Truth Social platform, United States President Donald Trump declared that South Africa would not receive an invitation to the 2026 Group of 20 G20 summit, which the United States is set to host in Miami, Florida. The announcement, made on Wednesday 26 November 2025, escalated a long-simmering feud between…
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has defended the decision to move all county hospital accounts to Sidian Bank, saying the switch will end persistent delays in paying health workers and deliver better interest rates. The governor told the Senate Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations on Tuesday that the previous banker, Co-operative Bank, often held up…
Leaders from the world’s largest economies gathered Saturday in Johannesburg for the Group of 20 summit, the first ever hosted on African soil and a landmark moment for the continent even as a U.S. boycott over disputed land policies dominated headlines. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa opened the two-day meeting at the Nasrec Expo Centre…
