THE LAST HOURS OF CONSOLATA: A FIRST DATE, A SIXTH-FLOOR FALL, AND A ROOM LEFT IN DISARRAY She packed a small bag. Not much—just enough for one night. A change of clothes, a phone charger, maybe a little extra perfume. The kind of bag you bring when you expect to return home by Sunday after...
THE SH120 MILLION GAMBLE: GACHAGUA ABANDONS REINSTATEMENT, NOW FIGHTS FOR PENSION, LIMOS, AND DIPLOMATIC PERKS He no longer wants his old desk. He wants the cheque. Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has executed a stunning legal about-turn that has reshaped Kenya’s most explosive impeachment battle. In ...
THE MOUNTAIN’S NEW FAULT LINE: KINDIKI’S 58-DAY BLITZ EXPOSES A DO-OR-DIE WAR WITH GACHAGUA Two men, one mountain, zero room for second place. In the high-stakes chess match for Kenya’s most coveted voting bloc, silence is defeat. And Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has chosen thunder. Betw...
CHAN Scandal Rocks Kenyan Football as FIFA Joins Probe, Acting President Freezes Accounts NAIROBI – The beautiful game in Kenya just turned brutally ugly. Barely weeks before the nation joins Tanzania and Uganda to co-host the PAMOJA AFCON 2027, football's world governing body FIFA has cra...
The Capital Shifts: Sakaja Reshuffles Top Team as Sh80bn Ruto Pact Reshapes Nairobi NAIROBI, Kenya – In the corridors of City Hall, a quiet storm is brewing. And it has nothing to do with potholes. Governor Johnson Sakaja has executed a major reshuffle of his chief officers, effectiv...
Blood on the Farmland: Seven Slain, Homes Torched in Kitui Bandit Attack TSEIKURU, Kenya – The harvest was supposed to begin at sunrise. Instead, bullets came. At least seven people were killed on Saturday, April 25, when suspected bandits stormed Kamari village in Tseikur...
Justice Delayed No More: Ruto Appoints 37 Judges to Slash Kenya’s Court Backlog NAIROBI, Kenya – For thousands of Kenyan litigants trapped in the grinding gears of a clogged judiciary, justice has often felt less like a right and more like a mirage. On Friday, President William R...
The Barrier Is Broken: Sebastian Sawe Runs 1:59:30, Becomes First Man in History to Conquer Two Hours LONDON – For 124 years, the two-hour marathon barrier stood as athletics’ final frontier—a mathematical mirage, a physiological impossibility, a whisper in the wind. On Sunday, Sebastian Sawe turned i...
Spirits of the Revolution: Sifuna, Orengo Kneel at Raila’s Grave Before Make-or-Break Kisumu Rally BONDO, Kenya – In a moment soaked in symbolism and raw political emotion, Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna, Siaya Governor James Orengo, and Embakasi East MP Babu Owino stood before the final resting plac...
‘Ka-Mwala’ Isn’t a Soda Bottle. It’s My Name. Inspekta Mwala Takes Coca-Cola to Court. For three decades, Davis Mwabili Hezron has made Kenya laugh. As Inspekta Mwala , his name became shorthand for wit, satire, and unforgettable characters on Vitimbi and Citizen TV. But when Coca-Cola ...
‘Let It Pass Through a Bank’: Muheria Draws Red Line on Political Cash in Church Harambees The Catholic Church has drawn a quiet but radical line in the sand: politicians can still give, but their hard cash will no longer be welcome. In a bold move that redefines the relationship between th...
‘We Look Forward’: Ruto Rejects East-West Binary, Lays Out Kenya’s Independent Foreign Policy ROME – In a sharp break from Cold War-style allegiance politics, President William Ruto has declared that Kenya will neither kneel to Washington nor bow to Beijing. Instead, Nairobi is charting a thir...