The Somaliland region goes to the polls on Wednesday in its sixth presidential election. The region, legally a part of Somalia, unilaterally declared independence in 1993 but has not been recognised by any other sovereign State. The elections signal its continued ability to change regimes at the ballot box, allowing civilians rather than soldiers to…
Political activist and advocate for government accountability Morara Kebaso has issued a two-week accountability report, detailing the amount of money he has spent on fuel. Morara, who depends on donations from Kenyans on social media to traverse the country to keep the President William Ruto-led administration in check, had earlier on promised to account for…
Taliban leaders. Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, in the sixth public execution since their return to power. The condemned man was shot with three bullets to the chest by a member of the victim’s family in front of thousands of spectators in Gardez,…
Kenyan socialite and entrepreneur Huddah Monroe has advised her followers to avoid giving power to people from poor backgrounds. Taking to her Instagram stories, Monroe, who has been a vocal critic of President William Ruto and his administration, noted that such leaders do not know what to do with the power given to them unless…
President William Ruto met with Nairobi MPs at State House Nairobi on Nov 12, 2024. [PCS] President William Ruto is ramping up efforts to implement his Bottom Up Economic Transformation Plan (BETA) by enlisting economic consultants on short-term contracts. An advertisement by the State House Tuesday outlined a strategy to create a database of…
Nairobi County Assembly members have criticized the Nairobi Rivers Commission for its slow progress in cleaning up the city’s rivers nearly two years after the agency’s launch. Despite substantial funding, the rivers remain filled with waste, raising questions about the commission’s effectiveness and potential misuse of funds. Nairobi South B Ward Representative and Deputy Minority…
The Executive Office of the President at State House, Nairobi, has invited Kenyans to apply for short-term consultancy positions. In a notice on Monday, November 11, President William Ruto’s office outlined that the consultants will help advance the government’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda. The consultancy services will primarily focus on macroeconomics, including areas such as…
Hooded Police officers in plain clothes remove road barricades along Outer Ring Road in Pipeline Estate during violent antigovernment protest that saw locals and police engage in push and pull on July 23, 2024. [File, Standard] They arrived in unmarked cars with faces concealed behind masks. In broad daylight, without a word, they would snatch young Kenyans off the…
The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced he will step down from his role following a damning report into a prolific child abuser associated with the Church of England. The review found that Justin Welby, 68, “could and should” have reported John Smyth’s abuse of boys and young men to police in 2013. In a statement,…
President William Ruto welcomes Mr. Li Xi, a senior member of China’s Communist Party, at State House Nairobi. The recent visit by Li Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, to Kenya marks…
Leaders who gathered at the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday rallied a call, linking peace and security to ending chronic hunger in the region. They spoke at the ‘World Without Hunger’ Conference where they used the occasion to also call for collaboration in the use of new technology, capable of producing food in the…
South Sudan and Kenya had good plans to build roads linking them, targeting to boost cross-border trade by reducing travel time and distance. But this has yet to be achieved. When the Nadapal–Nakodok project was first mooted in 2015, the 11-kilometre road was meant to be completed in three months. It was to be part of the…
Prime Cabinet Secretary and CS for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi, represented President William Ruto at a high-level event on Africa’s energy future, held alongside climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan. The side event, titled ‘Africa’s Green Momentum’, gathered global leaders to chart Africa’s path in the global energy transition. The discussions emphasized the ‘Nairobi…
President William Ruto has on Tuesday met the steering committee on the regeneration of the Nairobi Rivers Basin at State House Nairobi. The committee reported that the programme is progressing well and has hired 20,000 young people a month, 10,000 every fortnight since it began in October 2024. Loads of garbage have been cleared in…
Former IEBC Chairperson Isaac Hassan. PHOTO//Courtesy President William Ruto has nominated former IEBC Chairman Isaac Hassan as Chairperson of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) in new appointments to various government agencies. In the announcement, President Ruto also nominated seven other members to IPOA, including Ann Wanjiku Mwangi, Micah Onyiego Nyakego, Boniface Kipkemoi Samati, Annette…