On a December day in 2013, I witnessed a large group of people carrying firearms, which was a first for me. The group, known as Ng’iraia, had travelled from Southern Turkana to raid Nadome, an area in ...

The clash between progress and cultural heritage often results in painful outcomes, particularly the loss of family land and historical homes. The question remains: At what cost are we changing our ...

The United Nations declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids to celebrate the contribution of camelids to food security, nutrition, economic growth, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Over ...

G4S security guards working for the multinational cement manufacturer Bamburi Portland Cement Ltd, along with a special Kenyan police unit stationed at a site claimed by Bamburi, have been accused of ...

Imposing the regulation of religious organisations as proposed by the Religious Organisations Bill 2024 will impinge on the freedom of worship and is not in the interest of religious liberties. Canon ...

For decades now, the United Nations (UN) and its collaborators have been saying that humanity faces an existential threat due to “global warming” caused by human activities (“anthropogenic factors”).

Amidst Kenya’s #RejectFinanceBill protests, as the echoes of dissent reverberate through the streets, a generation rises to challenge the pillars of a colonial legacy that still looms large. Dominated ...

In my 24 April 2024 article, I pointed out that if the WHO’s Pandemic Agreement were to be signed into international law in its current form in May 2024 as scheduled, several of its provisions would ...

Neoliberalism, as a set of economic policies, is in full bloom in Uganda. The moment of the arrival in power of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime, which at the end of January 2024 ...

Somaliland is facing consequential party and presidential elections in 2024. While past elections have been hailed both locally and internationally as a cornerstone of the country’s nascent democracy, ...

With the declared outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, the world changed in ways most of us could not have possibly anticipated – “contact tracing”, “social distancing”, meticulous handwashing, ...

Corruption, however you define it, is so integral to the way human commercial and political affairs play out that all major global developments in its regard have been driven by geopolitical shifts.