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Mike Gitonga, the familiar face and voice at presidential events as the official emcee to the President, found himself in an unusual and tense encounter over the weekend. The Secretary of State Funct...
Private security services providers and stakeholders have called for stronger regulations to professionalise Kenya’s private security sector, saying such rules are long overdue.Led by Private Security Industry Association (PSIA) Chairman Cosmas Mutava, the service providers underscored the importanc
Macharia Wandere fired a sterling round total of 73 gross to be declared the Artilla Golf Day Overall Man Gross winner at the long playing Thika Greens Golf Resort on Friday.Playing off a handicap of 4, Wandere navigated the challenging layout to star in the highly competitive meet, where he dominat
Thika Lady Captain's Prize overall winner Isaack Charagu at the Thika Sports Club, November 28, 2025. [Mose Sammy, Standard]
Mental health has quietly become one of the most significant crises in Kenya and around the world. Globally, more than one billion people now live with mental health conditions, with anxiety and depression rising sharply. The burden cuts across youth, women and men, driven by economic hardships, soc
Tourism stakeholders in Kenya are raising the alarm over the widespread absence of sexual harassment policies in hotels, leaving employees, particularly entry-level staff and trainees, vulnerable to abuse.For years, they say, staff endured inappropriate advances, unwelcome comments, and other violat
NAIROBI – When Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo stepped off Kenya Airways flight KQ764 from Dar es Salaam on Wednesday evening, the arrivals hall at JKIA erupted. Mothers waved placards reading “Our Sons Are Home” while Gen Z activists sang the national anthem through tears.
RIYADH/NAIROBI – They have Kenyan blood but no Kenyan papers. They speak Arabic before they speak Swahili or Luhya or Kikuyu. They are the children born to Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia – and right now more than 500 of them are growing up in government orphanages because neither Riyadh nor Nairobi seems willing to claim them.
ELDORET – Twenty-four-year-old Emmanuel Kipchoge Cheruiyot (no relation to the marathon legend) left his village in Moiben on a cold July morning with a small backpack and a promise of $2,000 a month. Three months later his mother received a single photo: Emmanuel in Russian camouflage, holding an AK-12 somewhere near the Ukrainian border.
NAIROBI – At exactly 11:17 a.m. on Friday, November 21, 2025, the Central Bank of Kenya’s real-time remittances dashboard rolled past the symbolic figure: KSh 1,000,000,000,000. One trillion shillings sent home by Kenyans living abroad in just ten months –
