Browsing: Kenya

Ever eager to project his importance on the international stage, Kenya’s president William Ruto took to X on Monday to say that he’d had a call…

Since June 2024, a wave of abductions targeting government critics has swept over Kenya. 86 people, including activists and satirists, have been kidnapped – with foreign…

Britain still lionises its war-time prime minister Winston Churchill who died on this day 24th January 1965 . He’s credited with being a driving force against…

On 19 January, 217 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti, increasing the number of Kenyan personnel deployed to the Caribbean country to over 600. This comes despite…

The Kenya Human Rights Commission, along with several other rights groups, has raised concerns regarding the rise in abductions in Kenya. In a recent case, five…

The World Rally Championship traditionally descends on Kenya every year, when thousands of pleasure-seeking fans head to the main action in Naivasha. As African Stream’s Wambura…

Kenyans will remember 2024 for President William Ruto’s extravagant state visit to the US in May, during which Joe Biden announced that Congress was working on…

Mere years after presiding over the Nuremberg trials, Britain was unleashing the same horror on their colonies in Africa. During the struggle for independence in Kenya,…

Bread is at the heart of politics across the world. It represents labour, life and livelihoods. Ruling classes down the ages have always offered ‘bread and…

Is it a coincidence that the West favours some of Africa’s autocratic leaders? For example, take the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-97),…