Kenyan politicians are hiring armed thugs for as little as $4 per day, as poverty and ruthless political competition threaten ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya, died on Wednesday in India, where he was traveling when he suffered a heart attack. While he never became president of his East ...

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has called for nationla unity declaring that Kenya belongs to all its citizens and warning leaders against promoting tribal politics for political gain.Speaking during ...

Kenya has long admired a particular brand ofpolitician — the defiant one, the one who speaks truth to power at greatpersonal cost, the one whose suffering lends their words a moral authority ...

Apostle John Kimani calls the Ol Kalou by-election a political earthquake, highlighting voters' rejection of money in favour ...

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 ...

The death of Raila Odinga, a towering leadership figure in Kenya for more than three decades, looks set to fundamentally alter the country’s political landscape and test the cohesion of the fragile ...

Raila Amolo Odinga, who died on 15 October 2025, aged 80, ran five times for the Kenyan presidency but didn’t win. Yet he became a statesman of enormous influence, whose political and humanitarian ...

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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s political word of the moment is “goonism,” frequently uttered by national leaders to convey annoyance at the gangs that intimidate those whose political activities they ...