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07/11/2017

The rainy season is with us again and Nairobi has experienced quite a little bit of flooding, though not on a destructive scale yet. The relationship between floods and the built environment is known all over the world, and it is high time our city planners took steps to mitigate the effect of flood...

24/10/2017

President Uhuru Kenyatta's awarding of a charter for the Garissa University has given Northern Kenya its first ful-fledged univerisity. Granting the charter at State House, Nairobi, yesterday, President Uhuru Kenyatta also appointed Prof Hellen Sambili as the first Chancellor of the university.

24/10/2017

The Executive is represented by the President. Cabinet Ministers that form the Executive can’t undermine the President even if they disagree. And in cabinet meetings, the President’s word is final. Disagreements within the cabinet never come out to the public. The President is the symbol of executiv...

24/10/2017

The US, UK and other western envoys in their statement today ducked the question of whether the 26th October election should be postponed, despite painting an excruciatingly bleak picture of Kenya’s "deteriorating political environment."

24/10/2017

The Supreme Court became the centre of attention this morning as three pro-democracy activists launched a last-minute attempt to stop Thursday's repeat presidential election that the opposition and civil society and civil society leaders have declared as illegitimate.

24/10/2017

The official driver and bodyguard of Kenya's deputy chief justice Philomena Mwilu was shot and seriously wounded by gangsters riding on a motorbike in a Nairobi suburb this afternoon, just hours before the Supreme Court is to rule on whether the controversial repeat presidential election scheduled f...

23/10/2017

NASA brigade led by presidential candidate Raila Odinga today met ambassdors of the western powers and stood ground that with three days to the election there is nothing that can change in the electoral infrastructure.

23/10/2017

The Financial Times of London has urged western powers to look critically into Kenya's repeat presidential election scheduled for October 26. With only three days left to the vote, the FT has raised concerns that the election will plunge Kenya into a deep political crisis.

18/10/2017

International Center for Policy and Conflict (ICPC) is calling upon the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to exercise its constitutional powers and call off the fresh presidential election planned for October 26. Under Article 88 of the Constitution, the superintendence, directi...

18/10/2017

Three opposition protesters were shot dead in Bondo Town this morning and two others were reportedly killed in Kisumu on a bloody day in which police officers opened live fire on demonstrators. At least fifty people were treated for teargas intoxication or gunshot wounds across Siaya, Homa Bay and K...

18/10/2017

What does Raila Odinga have up his sleeves? This was the question on the lips of savvy political analysts after the NASA presidential candidate suddenly suspended the coalition's street demonstrations this morning, just a day after the protests were supposed to have taken an escalated scale.

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