Raila Odinga, the legendary Kenyan politician who passed away last week, has long been feted as a champion of democracy and good governance, not just in Kenya, but across the entire continent. In a ...

Raila Amolo Odinga’s life was a stirring journey—a tapestry woven from courage, resilience, and an unyielding belief in a better Kenya. To know Odinga was to witness a man who stood at the heart of ...

Rasna Warah is a Kenyan writer and journalist. In a previous incarnation, she was an editor at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). She has published two books on Somalia – War ...

Capetown, South Africa – Of all the controversies swirling round the figure of President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma aka Msholozi – his clan praise name – probably the best known and most discussed ...

THE current clamour by a certain section of the political class across the board to change Kenya’s constitution is not anything new; we have been here before. Two years before the death of Kenya’s ...

Corruption, however you define it, is so integral to the way human commercial and political affairs play out that all major global developments in its regard have been driven by geopolitical shifts.

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...

Somaliland is facing consequential party and presidential elections in 2024. While past elections have been hailed both locally and internationally as a cornerstone of the country’s nascent democracy, ...

The Port of Mombasa was lucky to survive the mistakes that had been made in the years before 2007, in particular the failure to develop the facility’s infrastructure in order to keep up with the ...

A new story map, Trans-Saharan Route Then and Now, traces this evolution across key nodes — from the Central to the Western and Eastern Trans Sahara Migration Corridor — highlighting how the economic ...

In the face of the Ethiopian government’s failure to comply with the provisions of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, the TPLF must urgently seek to have the accord amended and demand its enforcement. As ...

In many parts of the world where ethnic balance has not been achieved, politics turn violent. Ethiopia is a classic example where a lack of ethnic balance leads to ethnic violence. The Ethiopian ...