Blurry video of a policeman beating a demonstrator; a photograph of angry slum-dwellers storming a food depot; headlines featuring the word “violence.” That, more or less, sums up the news from Kenya, ...

Editor's Note: In this piece, policy analyst Alex Munyua argues that Kenya’s political discourse is trapped in a "high-stakes theatre" of personality clashes and procedural squabbles, distracting the ...

A 44-year-old senator, Edwin Sifuna, has emerged as a rising challenger to Kenya's President William Ruto ahead of next year's election as he channels anger over political violence and corruption. The ...

Kenya’s Gen Z-led protests of 2024 drew global headlines. For weeks, young people mobilised against proposed tax increases, the rising cost of living, unemployment, corruption and what they saw as an ...

CS Treasury John Mbadi before the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning at Bunge Towers, Nairobi, August 20, 2026. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] When the history of Kenya’s Third Republic ...

To maintain fiscal health, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund generally regard a debt-service burden of 15-20 per cent of total government revenue as a prudent upper range. By the time the ...