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

Kenyan newspapers on January 30, 2026, highlight growing unease among President William Ruto's allies over the party's ...

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 ...

Former secretary general of Speaker Moses Wetang’ula’s Ford Kenya party, Chris Wamalwa, has left the party to join William Ruto’s UDA, citing being sidelined.

Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga's son Raila Odinga Jr. places his father's hat on top the flag draped coffin during the funeral service for Raila Odinga, who died while receiving treatment ...

The sudden collapse of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's much-hyped interview with journalists from Northern Kenya has sparked whispers of a botched cash-for-silence arrangement, leaving ...

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

In 2022, when William Ruto was elected president of Kenya, he pledged that his government would plant 15 billion trees by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...