Young Africans recruited from at least fifteen African countries were promised good salaries and skills training, but once there, they were often trapped, facing...
General, Guest Post
Mind Your Language: Kenya, Swing States, and the West’s “New World Order” Playbook
By Uri Ludger There was a thorough security check at the entrance to the University of Nairobi’s Taifa Hall that morning. Pretty standard for an event of this magnitude...
In this investigation, Ukweli Coalition Media Hub, an investigative platform specialising in the Great Lakes region, in partnership with Afrique XXI and Africa...
General
Detained and Indebted: How World Bank Funding for Kenyan Healthcare Failed the Patients It Was Meant to Help
A surge in private equity funding for hospitals left a trail of crushing debts, patient detentions and broken promises. By Ben Dooley and Micah Reddy This story was...
Days ahead of the first anniversary in Kenya of the Gen Z-led anti-government protests that resulted in at least 60 deaths and displays of police brutality, news broke...
By Christine Mungai How the Investigation Began I came to this story not just as a journalist, but as an alumna of Alliance Girls High School, deeply connected to its...
Environment, General, Kenya
Cows, Carbon and Conflict: The Uneasy Coexistence of Climate Projects and Community Rights in Northern Kenya
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant. In Kenya’s rugged north, where the effects of climate change are vivid and dire, Northern...
In the last few years, at least 17,000 Burundian women have officially set off for Riyadh in search of a better life. Although Burundi and Saudi Arabia signed an...
Since arriving in Mali in 2021, Russian Wagner mercenaries have abducted and detained hundreds of civilians in former UN bases and military camps shared with the Malian...
By Nelly Madegwa In Kenya’s third National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP III) to reduce greenhouse gases and adjust to the impacts of current or expected...