As 2027 approaches, she faces the challenge of balancing service delivery with the rough edges of Mt Kenya politics.

Kenya's neighbours, meanwhile, have moved ahead. Rwanda and Uganda reserve at least 30 per cent of parliamentary seats for women. Tanzania employs proportional representation lists that mandate women ...

Japan's PM Sanae Takaichi is the highest-ranked political newcomer on this year's Forbes Most Powerful Women list, a bright ...

President William Ruto's allies in Mt Kenya have laid out their plan to secure at least two million votes for the president ...

Once seen as a youthful moderniser, Governor of Nairobi Johnson Sakaja now presides over a capital drifting into disorder and ...

The bribery, the violence and everything undesirable that took place was in the first place possible because there were ...

A new campaign, Queering the Ballot II, is revealing barriers faced by LGBTIQ+ voters in Kenya and calling for safer, ...

Kenya’s broad-based government — formed in 2024 by President William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) and the late opposition leader Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) after weeks ...

From left: Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Theresa Lazaro and Kenya Director General for Political and Diplomatic Affairs Josphat Maikara (Courtesy: Theresa Lazaro via X) Foreign Affairs ...

Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale was on Tuesday ejected from the Senate after he refused to withdraw remarks claiming that former President Uhuru Kenyatta intervened to secure the release of two Kenyan ...

Slightly more than two decades ago, in the heated crucible of Kenya’s constitutional reform struggles, a giant was born. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) did not come by as an accident. It was a ...

Kenya’s growing debt was long seen as a symptom of global financial dependence. But the bigger problem lies at home. Well-connected political elites dominate the domestic debt market and profit from a ...