Increased payroll taxes are one element of a bid in Kenya to keep the government running and pay off the country’s foreign ...

Kibera, Nairobi’s largest informal settlement, is often reduced to images of poverty – rusted tin rooftops, open sewers and ...

Everlyn Namai dreamed that her missing cousin, 26-year-old Josephine Owino, came to her for help. “I’m here in the cold, in ...

I grew up in Kenya’s Kibera slum, the largest urban slum in Africa, and experienced extreme poverty firsthand. I was a street child, constantly scraping by for food and water, and lacking basic ...

Policy brutality in Kenya is no accident, it’s policy. Benedict Were exposes how silence, impunity, and fear sustain a brutal ...

Figuring out how to get things done is a major constraint to African development The post on African elites’ lack of ambition ...

A man, convinced his wife was unfaithful, visited a village juju man for answers. The diviner demanded sand from the man ...

Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

Many countries see an ageing population as a key threat to economic well-being because seniors have left the workforce, and ...