NAIROBI: KENYA is projected to face heightened political instability and civil unrest this year, even as fears of economic ...

Quiet political manoeuvres ahead of Kenya's 2027 General Election come to light, featuring tensions among leaders from DCP and the Jubilee parties.

Raila Amollo Odinga, who has died at the age of 80, was something of a paradox in post-independence Kenyan politics. A leader who repeatedly ran for president, he never won – in part due to the 2007 ...

Imagine a political drama with more twists than a Netflix thriller. That’s exactly what’s unfolding in East Africa’s most dynamic democracy. Remember that famous 2018 handshake between President Uhuru ...

By David Akana In 2022, when William Ruto was elected president of Kenya, he pledged that his government would plant 15 ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Seventeen mourners were being treated for injuries on Friday after a stampede at the state funeral of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, a source at Kenyatta National Hospital ...

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, a "towering statesman" over decades of upheaval, died at the age of 80 on Wednesday during a health visit to India -- a political earthquake that leaves the east ...

Moments of political confrontation often become defining chapters in a nation’s democratic journey, not merely because of the ...

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