The President said Kenya must now choose ambition over fear and abandon what he termed the false comfort of low expectations.
In one dramatic seizure, officers counted Sh5.46 million in cold, hard cash, money that had been stashed away in the suspects’ homes like loose change.
The Swiss development charity SwissAid has spent months documenting Kenya’s role in what amounts to an industrial-scale laundering operation for African gold.
The intelligence that led to the interception of the Igor was generated by surveillance systems Kenya does not own and cannot access independently.
What Raila achieved in death may prove more consequential than his lifetime struggles.
The stateless vessel, crewed entirely by Iranians, ignored multiple commands to stop before naval officers boarded it during what authorities described as Operation Bahari Safi.
The Kenya Coast Guard Service provided maritime operational capabilities. Port Police secured the perimeter. The National Intelligence Service fed crucial intelligence.
In Burgie’s lyrics, the sailor must leave “a little girl in Kingston Town,” his heart remaining behind even as his ship sails on. For Raila, Kingston...
But what Winnie seems to carry is something different. It is not the dynasty in its old form, not the ancestral claim to opposition politics, but...
Throughout his career, Raila demonstrated an almost supernatural ability to survive political obituaries.
Raila had quietly placed the Luo community under the political protection of President Ruto. This was not surrender but strategy, a lesson drawn from Kenya’s political...
It was the first time the full apparatus of state honour was extended to someone who never held executive office.
The symbolism of according Odinga full military honors carries particular weight given his complex relationship with Kenya’s security establishment over the years.
Now Ogeta stands at a crossroads that no training prepared him for. The man he protected is beyond protection.
This was not a riot or an act of malicious intent. It was grief made manifest, a collective outpouring that defied the neat boundaries security planners...
In a cruel irony, the condition that critics mocked actually burnished his credentials among supporters.
Every president from Moi to Ruto discovered that jailing him risked explosion, while accommodating him bought stability.
Raila’s legacy lies not in the office he failed to win, but in the democratic space he helped create for future generations to contest power peacefully....
Through the long decade of the 1980s, as Moi’s regime tightened its authoritarian grip, Odinga cycled in and out of prison, spending stretches in solitary confinement...
Whether Mr Moi will join the Cabinet directly or nominate allies remains unclear, but insiders suggest he has been given the option to either take a...
