An Olympic marathon champion’s tragic weakness.

KTDA neither protects the farmer, nor caters for their needs.

The death of former Kenyan president, Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, in a private hospital in the capital, Nairobi, is bound to reopen old wounds in the country's national psyche. Having presided over a brutal, 24-year kleptocracy that terrorised, murdered and…

The rapid rise in cancer cases can be attributed to major societal and environmental changes that have occurred in the past few decades.

Thus the Degodia Clan of Wagalla will get almost no reparation. The wounds on their bodies have healed, but the ones in their hearts and minds are still fresh sores. As a nation, Kenya has deliberately denied the Wagalla people justice. But thanks to Judy…

Download PDFPrint Article“I’m conflicted. Sometimes I want them to just tear it down. But it’s also part of our history. If we don’t deal with the legacy of that past then we are likely to repeat the same mistakes”. Wachira Waheire spends several of the first…

Airport public health officials have got better at screening at ports of entry especially for international arrivals.

King Kaka’s controversial new song on the state of the Kenyan nation reflects the thoughts of an increasingly disillusioned youthful population that is cynically being manipulated and marginalised by both church and state.

In the span of three months, two men (a Kenyan pilot and a Seychellois politician) at the center of a bizarre mercenary plot to overthrow the government of Seychelles in 1981 have died.

Over the past several months and weeks, there has been a deluge of diagnoses of the 2010s, sometimes accompanied by prognoses of the 2020s. Such retrospectives and reflections, infinitely varied in their sagacity and silliness, are ritualized cognitive efforts…

Five years ago a midwife in Kenya delivered a child with male and female sexual organs. The father told her to kill it, but instead she hid it and raised it as her own.

It was one of sport's great question marks—could a human break a 2-hour marathon? Then Eliud Kipchoge did it. What followed was international fame, and plenty of controversy.

During a pandemic that arrived here in a plane, the well-to-do should, at the very least, heed government directives