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Siaya nuclear gamble: Powering Kenya or risking locals safety?

Kenya is embarking on one of the most ambitious and controversial energy projects in its history. Siaya County is being considered to host Kenya’s first nuclear power plant, under the auspices of the Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA).Estimated at Sh500 billion, the plant could generate up to 2

By The Standard Dec 01, 2025
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We sleep hungry: How pregnant women fight for care

At around 3pm, we arrived in a village in Dukana area of Marsabit County. The sun had dipped past its highest point, the light had softened into a warm glow and long shadows stretched across the ground, which still radiated intense heat.

By The Standard Dec 01, 2025
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The Desert Children: Over 500 Stateless Toddlers Trapped in Saudi Orphanages

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.

By VcDigest Nov 23, 2025
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From Eldoret to the Donbas: The 200+ Kenyans Now Fighting for Russia

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.

By VcDigest Nov 23, 2025
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