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As the 2027 State House contest gathers momentum, Wiper Patriotic Front leader Kalonzo Musyoka has revealed that the United Opposition will settle on its presidential flagbearer before April next year.Speaking during a press briefing in Nairobi on Tuesday, Kalonzo dismissed talk of the opposition le
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Less than four years after riding a united political machine into office, Governor James Orengo now faces his toughest challenges yet.This threat does not come from the opposition, but from former allies who once backed anddefended his riseto power.Get Full Access for Ksh299/WeekUnlock the Full Stor
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Plans by Kenya and China to ink alandmark trade agreementdesigned to provide a critical lifeline to local exporters have been cast into a state of geopolitical limbo.Documents seen byThe Sunday Standard, and sources who spoke to this writer, reveal that the finalised text of the "Early Harvest" deal
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Candidates in the 2025 KCSE haveposted better scorescompared to the previous two years, even as bottom grades declined.An analysis of data in the past three years shows growth in top grades and candidates qualifying for university, while the share of candidates at the very bottom is shrinking.Get Fu
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Traditional giants have once again secured their place at the top of the2025 KCSE resultsreleased Friday, even as a handful of little-known schools entered the national scene to disrupt the long-established order.An independent analysis of the top 100 schools byThe Standardindicates that national sc
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Four years after sitting their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations, a cohort of former top pupils has once again risen to the occasion,posting outstanding resultsin the 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations.Their journeys, marked by resilience, disc
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The ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) yesterday conducted grassroots elections in 20 counties, in an exercise marred by low voter turnout and delays in the delivery of election materials.President William Rutojoined other UDA membersin voting at Koilel Primary School in Ainabkoi, Uasin Gishu C
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The family and friends of Stella Cecilia Taraja, a Kenyan teacher based in Saudi Arabia, are living in agony, gripped by unanswered questions weeks after she allegedly disappeared from her apartment under what they termed as disturbing and suspicious.Stella, known among her friends as 'Faya,' was la
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Donald Trump has just reminded us again. We live in a defective diplomatic world. Powerful states moralize what they do not practice, and practice what they do not moralize. International law is for the small and weak.The United States’raid on Venezuela, and the abduction, last week, of President Ni
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Donald Trump imagines himself to be a 21st-century Teddy Roosevelt, craving for power and using the presidency as ‘bully pulpit’ to bully his desires into reality. Each proclaimed a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine to empower them to do as they wanted.Roosevelt, an instigator of the Spanish-American
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Little-known schools and former sleeping giants in Nyanza and Westernmade a comeback, even as others were grappling with shock after some of their students' results were withheld.Nearly all the schools in the region registered an improvement in their overall grading.Get Full Access for Ksh299/WeekBo
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Read more →Victor Osimhen scored one goal and set up another as Nigeria beat Algeria 2-0 in their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final on Saturday to set up a last-four showdown with hosts Morocco.Nigeria dominated the first half in Marrakesh without scoring before getting the breakthrough within two minutes of
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