Former deputy president tells a Spokane, Washington State audience that he would back Sifuna for the opposition to defeat President William Ruto in 2027, but his record fuels fresh criticism at home and in the diaspora
Ruto’s Xenophobic War on Foreign Hawkers Is a Distraction From His Own Jobs Failure
In an act of brazen hypocrisy, the president who built a foreign policy on exporting Kenyan labor now wants to restrict foreign labor at home.
Uganda Prepares to Bury King Oyo as Nine-Day Mourning Period Begins
The Omukama of Tooro, once the world's youngest reigning monarch, was crowned at age 3 and died at 34 while undergoing cancer treatment in the United States. He will be laid to rest at the Karambi Royal Tombs in Uganda.
Guilty Verdict Ends 30 Years of Tupac Murder Theories, but Not the Way Anyone Predicted
Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, the Self-Styled 'Compton Street Legend,' Is Convicted of Orchestrating the 1996 Murder That Ended Gangsta Rap's Biggest Star's Life, Though the Real Triggerman Remains Unknown
Part 1: The History of Afrophobia in Africa, How the Pattern Was Built
From slavery to the present, Afrophobia has taken different forms, but the impact remains.
Kenya’s Goon Economy: How Political Violence Became a Business
Profiting from political violence. A rate card born in 1992 has resurfaced, leaving a trail of death and destroyed property, and it still prices bloodshed in Kenya today, though no financier has ever answered for it in court.
Dolly Parton, The Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80 After Brief Cancer Battle
Her collaboration with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, her refusal to pick political sides, and her decades-long partnership with Kenny Rogers defined a career the whole world claimed as its own.
Africa’s Trillion-Dollar Mineral Map of Lost Wealth
A look at African minerals powering global industries, and why the nations that hold them capture only a fraction of the wealth they create.
Eswatini, Rwanda, Ghana and Uganda Among Countries Cutting Deals for Trump’s Deportees
Behind closed-door agreements, African governments are trading migration cooperation for cash, visa relief and political cover, while Ghana has repeatedly sent protected deportees home anyway.
A Kenyan School Lunch Programme Wins International Prize in Berlin
The programme started with 25 children and now feeds 660,000 across Kenya, pays local farmers, and employs thousands.









