Kenya: Heed my word Sifuna – it’s not outrageous to say ODM is irreversibly compromised up to 2027 and beyond
A morally upright Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party would have at the very least given an ultimatum to President William Ruto government to shape up or face divorce. In truth, United Democratic Alliance’s (UDA) crimes so far qualify it for all manner of punishment, the most obvious being resignation from power
State legitimacy crisis in Uganda: A hotchpotch of deep state, military state and police state that represses or suppresses alternative opinion
We see erosion of peace and security in both rural and urban areas at a rate unimaginable after 2000. Ogega Otunnu (2017) has indicated that the crisis of state legitimacy and political violence in Uganda continues. He has looked at the crisis of state legitimacy under the Uganda National Liberation Movement/Army (UNLF/A) from 1979-1980, Uganda People’s Congress during Obote II from 1981/1985, Tito Okello military junta from 1985-1986 and National Resistance Movement under Tibuhaburwa Museveni from 1986-2016 (SpringerLink Search, 2020).
Transition: Vendor shot by police in Kenyan capital dies after weeks in cabbage state
The Kenyan man who was shot at close range by a police officer during recent protests over a blogger’s death in custody has died, his family announced on Monday evening. Family spokesperson Emily Wanjira said Boniface Kariuki died on Monday afternoon, a day after doctors at the national referral hospital...
Re-imagining Kenya: Political unrest, justice on the streets that fuses fact and fiction to result in Daredevil’s flight from shadows
Kenya’s Gen Z, galvanised by social media hashtags and mobile communication, have driven two synchronised waves of resistance – from #OccupyParliament in June 2024 to renewed June 25, 2025 protests.
Muslims clerics want Interior Minister Murkomen assigned ‘lighter duties’ ahead of planned Saba Saba protests
CIPK National Chair Sheikh Abdalla Ateka said the remarks in which Murkomen was quoted as telling police officers to shoot anyone approaching a police station during demonstrations, were inappropriate and unbecoming of a senior government official.
