Can you hide from state surveillance? What happens when state surveillance is used on a nation’s citizens to restrict their freedom? Kenya had...
Category - Kenya
Stories centred around happenings in Kenya
Protests erupted across major cities and towns in Tanzania after the 29 October 2025 elections. These protests were unprecedented in their scale...
Rising temperatures and erratic rainfall have supercharged the breeding of sandflies that spread kala-azar, a neglected tropical disease, putting...
Africa, Kenya
Regional Crackdown: How East Africa’s Regimes Are Targeting Critics Beyond Their Borders
By Delilah Paulo
Raila Amollo Odinga, who has died at the age of 80, was something of a paradox in post-independence Kenyan politics. A leader who repeatedly ran for...
When Brian Odhiambo, a fisherman, disappeared after allegedly being caught fishing, it revealed a darker reality: wildlife rangers accused of...
By William Moige
Ten years ago, Owino Uhuru, an informal settlement in Mombasa, shocked the world when residents were found to be dying from lead poisoning, with both...
Kenya
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...
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...