NAIROBI: KENYA is projected to face heightened political instability and civil unrest this year, even as fears of economic ...

As East Africa emerges from a charged election cycle in Uganda and Tanzania, the region is confronted with an uncomfortable ...

Former secretary general of Speaker Moses Wetang’ula’s Ford Kenya party, Chris Wamalwa, has left the party to join William ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 28 -- The battle for the soul of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has moved from the party's corridors to the public stage, as East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) Member ...

Kenya’s political space remains largely hostile to young women, with intimidation, abuse, and humiliation continuing to discourage their participation in leadership.This challenge took centre stage at ...

In 2022, when William Ruto was elected president of Kenya, he pledged that his government would plant 15 billion trees by ...

Raila Amollo Odinga, who has died at the age of 80, was something of a paradox in post-independence Kenyan politics. A leader who repeatedly ran for president, he never won – in part due to the 2007 ...

For the first time in the region’s history, Mount Kenya, with more than six million voters, will not go into one voting basket with the people united behind a single presidential candidate when Kenya ...

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, a "towering statesman" over decades of upheaval, died at the age of 80 on Wednesday during a health visit to India -- a political earthquake that leaves the east ...

On a wet Thursday night in early May, a well-known businessman and government critic was found dead in his armoured blue Mercedes by a busy road on the outskirts of Nairobi, five bullet holes in his ...