Internal strife within Kenya's Linda Mwananchi movement threatens its youth-driven agenda, as leaders debate joining ...

EMPHRAIM WAINAINA I believe Mt Kenya is unlikely to automatically support a presidential ticket that does not include one of its own as either the presidential candidate or the running mate. However, ...

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 ...

Kenya’s Gen Z-led protests of 2024 drew global headlines. For weeks, young people mobilised against proposed tax increases, ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A surprise handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga has stirred up Kenyan politics as the long-time rivals set their sights on the 2022 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial presidential candidate whose populist campaigns challenged one-party rule, rattled authorities and gave him outsized ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — 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 oppose ...

Kenya’s biggestgovernance challenge is no longer the lack of policies, resources or evenopportunities. The real challenge lies in leadership placement. For years, cabinet secretary appointments have ...

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 ...

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 ...