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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.
Picture this: you fall ill, visit the hospital, and undergo tests. The doctor informs you that you have a bacterial infection. You are prescribed antibiotics and sent home with a warning: “You should feel better after two days, but please make sure you complete your seven-day dose.”
Youth unemployment, terrorism, cases of cattle rustling andinflux of refugees, still pose security risks, a new report shows.Also, the threat of having a spill-over of conflicts from refugees home countries further threaten the security of the country, a report handed over to Parliament by President
A row is brewing between Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga and her deputy, Oyugi Magwanga, following Magwanga’s decision to openly oppose ODM’s MP-elect, Boyd Were.Magwanga staged an anti-Boyd campaign in Kasipul and threw his weight behind independent candidate Phillip Aroko. Were won Thursday’s by-el
Today, young Brenda Gitonga could perhaps be cheerfully taking care of her father's dream project of constructing residential houses in a remote part of Meru County.But that is not the case. Instead, into the fifth month, 23-year-old Brenda and some relatives is not only mourning the death of her fa
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, there is a character named Squealer, a pig whose sole purpose is to serve as the regime’s chief propagandist. With a nimble command of language and a disregard for truth, Squealer convinces the other animals that their failing memories are in fact evidence of sheer pr
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 –
