For the first time in the region’s history, Mount Kenya, with more than six million voters, will not go into one voting basket with the people united behind a single presidential candidate when Kenya ...

Dramatic changes, reconciliations, and fallouts that would make a telenovela blush are what Kenyan politics are all about The landscape is changing again today as President William Ruto is publicly ...

In June, a series of protests led by young people and others frustrated with regressive tax reforms and police brutality swept Kenya. Its Left Alliance played a role in organizing these protests, and ...

Raila Amolo Odinga, who died on 15 October 2025, aged 80, ran five times for the Kenyan presidency but didn’t win. Yet he became a statesman of enormous influence, whose political and humanitarian ...

Majorities in most of the 25 countries surveyed say their political system needs major changes or complete reform. About eight-in-ten adults or more in Argentina, Brazil, Greece, Kenya, Nigeria, South ...

Instead of chasing popularity, the president has spent the last three years quietly locking down the electoral map, something far more decisive. Through power-sharing, elite co-option, targeted ...

One of the markers of Kenyan statesman Raila Odinga was not just his courage in challenging the establishment but his ability to fortify it when circumstances demanded. An example was his willingness ...