Browsing: East Africa

While Britain loudly proclaims a ‘rules based order,’ it has no qualms flouting international rulings to retain control over territories. Take the example of the Chagos…

In this clip from a viral video, Mike Harris, 86, a third-generation British settler in Kenya, admitted to Kenyan journalist and YouTuber Lynn Ngugi that his…

On 2 December, Kenyan lawyer Martha Karua announced she has gathered a ‘Pan-African’ group of lawyers to defend Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye (@kizzabesigye1 of @FDCOfficial1…

The exploitation of cheap labour is one consequence of the ongoing phenomenon of colonisation, and one US-based artificial-intelligence company, Sama, is under scrutiny for running what…

Nelson Amenya (@amenya_nelson on X) woke up to an avalanche of plaudits from around the globe the day after Kenyan President William Ruto cancelled a proposed…

Despite earlier assurances that taxpayers would not fund the operation, Kenya’s government has allocated $16 million to support the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti. The…

Kenyan President William Ruto announced on 21 November the cancellation of proposed infrastructure deals with India-based Adani Group in the energy and aviation sectors. This decision…

Early on in the proxy war being fought in Sudan, Khartoum snubbed peace talks when it was revealed that Kenya was chairing them – accusing Nairobi…

Nairobi’s fast resembling a Hollywood spy-thriller movie location, with armed masked men bundling helpless victims into waiting cars that whisk them away to unknown places. It’s…

A big donation from Kenya’s president has been rejected by the country’s Catholic Church, which got a lot of stick during June’s tax protests for taking…