Opinion

The start of the 2023 school year in Kenya marks an important occasion: the first cohort of pupils to adopt...

Understandably more than three decades after Soviet collapse, Russia has few well-trained multipolar-oriented specialists and professionals to work seriously on...

It is a sad state of affair to see universities that train professionals cannot exude the same in their operations....

Intern exploitation is a widespread issue that affects young people around the world. An intern is typically a student or...

A member of parliament in Kenyan president William Ruto’s governing coalition created a firestorm by suggesting that there was a...

Conflict and insecurity are prevalent in northern Kenya. In recent weeks, cases of bandit attacks in the region have left...

Barely a month into office, President William Ruto of Kenya ordered the disbandment of a special police unit placed at...

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan survived what supporters described as an assassination attempt on Nov. 3, 2022, as he...

Kenya recently lifted a ban on the cultivation and importation of genetically modified crops amid the worst drought in 40...

People’s responses to large infrastructure projects – railways, bridges, highways – are rarely neutral. To some, these projects represent powerful...

South Africa’s major cities in the Gauteng Province – the country’s economic heartland – are experiencing major water shortages. In...

There are stories of colonialism in the annals of African history, then there is the story of colonialism in Eritrea....

Days before Russian President Vladimir Putin announced hasty referendums in the occupied regions of Ukraine and the conscription of Russian...

Russia is set to formally annex four occupied territories in eastern Ukraine, claiming the region as its own more than...

After seven years of hosting The Daily Show on Comedy Central, a hit comedy show produced in the US but...

President William Ruto has nominated Njuguna Ndung'u to head Kenya’s National Treasury. A Central Bank of Kenya governor for eight...

It’s a long-standing Kenyan tradition to offer congratulations in paid print and TV messages to an incoming president. The bulk...

Kenya’s newly elected president, William Ruto, has earned more legal space to borrow for his grandiose economic plan after parliament...

Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru, one of the people accused of interfering with witnesses in the case involving President William Ruto...

Religion plays a key role in our country and national elections. We see politicians being prayed for during election campaigns....

Safe abortion and post abortion care are essential health services. But until the publication of the 2022 World Health Organization...

Do you still buy a daily newspaper? Or perhaps a Sunday paper? If you do either, you are probably aged...

Background Youths are the future. Not to say that the future will be dull for young girls who become mothers...

Quite often we like to tell the grieving constituency amongst us to “accept and move on” without interrogating the legitimacy...

September is suicide prevention awareness month. It is a time to raise awareness about one of the most stigmatized topics....

Following the 2007-08 post-election experience, tension among ethnic groups has become a growing concern every time Kenyans go to the...

The first prosecution witness in the Kimwarer-Arror dams case took to the stand once again yesterday at the Milimani Anti-Corruption...

Last week, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, argued that we may be approaching the...

The fall of Berlin wall in 1989 marked the formal collapse of communism and the gradual globalization of liberalism. Two...

Cultural analysts understand memes – units of cultural transmission, according to British biologist Richard Dawkins – as the most effective...