One day we’ll wake up at the end of looting spree in Kenya to find its potential is all behind us and it is a land of lost opportunity
When President William Ruto is not roaming the countryside in the name of “bring development,” he is globe-trotting under the guise of shopping for employment the jobless youth. It is a shameless admission that his bottom-up policies cannot power the economy to generate jobs for more than three million graduates who are desperate to deploy their skills to nation-building. How can a government train manpower, then give it away for other countries to use?
Civic education: Nomadic community in far-flung remote Kenya gets rare up-close-and candid with senior judiciary officials
In a rare gesture of taking justice to the people and de-stigmatisation of justice, a court in a far-flung region of north-western Kenya that is synonymous with banditry, cattle rustling, hunger and extreme climatic swings held a Judiciary Dialogue Day to explain to the public how the court system works....
East Africa’s leading gaming firm SportPesa transforms betting with M-Pesa mini-app integration
M-Pesa’s extensive reach, coupled with SportPesa’s reputation for delivering unparalleled gaming experiences, creates a synergy that benefits both platforms. This collaboration solidifies M-Pesa’s position as Kenya’s leading financial services provider.
Kenya eyes deeper economic ties with Europe to diversify exports from coffee, tea and flowers
Principal Secretary K’Ombudo said Kenya’s commitment to adhering to environmental standards, to attract trade and investment by maintaining supply chains that are ethical and verifiable to guard sustainability.
Buck stops with you Mr President: Opposition and senior state functionaries turn heat on president as more Kenyans are abducted
According to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) reports, at least 82 Kenyans have gone missing since the Gen-Z (youth) protests began in June, with six people reportedly abducted in the past two weeks. The commission says the number could been higher.
Insurgency in eastern Congo echoes dangers of constitutionally manufacturing ‘indigenous’ Banyarwanda tribe in Uganda in wider Museveni-Kagame plot to create Chwezi superstrate
Whether they are in Uganda, Rwanda, DRC or Burundi, they take themselves as one and the same with the same interest: survival as a small group in a sea of indigenous Bantu and Nilotic groups. To survive in modern times they must capture every civic space, conquer the natives, exclude them from resources, divide them, make laws that create fear in them and prevent them from organising themselves politically and effectively. They control the electoral process in their favour, subordinate the civil to the military and rule them with an iron hand.
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels want to capture Bukavu in eastern Congo as UN reports group killed 700 civilians, injured 2,800 in Goma
The M23 group is the most potent of more than 200 armed groups vying for control in Congo’s mineral-rich east, which holds vast deposits critical to much of the world’s technology. They are backed by around 4,000 troops from neighbouring Rwanda, according to UN experts, far more than in 2012 when they first captured Goma for days in a conflict driven by ethnic grievances.
South African opposition accuse President Ramaphosa of poor leadership after M23 rebels kill 13 soldiers
Brett Herron, Secretary General of the GOOD Party, on Tuesday echoed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in vigorously condemning the offensive on the North Kivu regional capital of Goma by the M23 rebels and the support given to them by the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF).
Uganda Supreme Court bans military prosecution of civilians, falls short ordering release of detained opposition leader Besigye
Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo said members of military courts did not possess legal competence to handle criminal trials in a fair and impartial manner, as required by the constitution. That’s a stark contrast to the last time M23 took Goma – back in 2012.
Women take karate lessons for self-defence as alternative to police as femicide incidents in Kenya soar
Activists say the recent upward trend is felt across Kenya’s impoverished informal settlements, where women’s efforts to protect themselves have taken on fresh urgency. Inside a church in the Korogocho area of the capital Nairobi, Mary Wainaina, 93, thumped a punching bag. “No! No! No!” she shouted, before running away from a classmate pretending to be a male aggressor.
