Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna leads a mass exit from ODM, aiming to unite Western Kenya's vote and become a strong ...

For the first time in the region’s history, Mount Kenya, with more than six million voters, will not go into one voting basket with the people united behind a single presidential candidate when Kenya ...

Wilson Rotich examines the Saba Saba struggle's impact on Kenya, highlighting the gap between political freedom and the ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A surprise handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga has stirred up Kenyan politics as the long-time rivals set their sights on the 2022 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's political word of the moment is “goonism,” frequently uttered by national leaders to convey annoyance at the gangs that intimidate those whose political activities they oppose ...

Kenya’s Gen Z-led protests of 2024 drew global headlines. For weeks, young people mobilised against proposed tax increases, the rising cost of living, unemployment, corruption and what they saw as an ...

Raila Amolo Odinga, who died on 15 October 2025, aged 80, ran five times for the Kenyan presidency but didn’t win. Yet he became a statesman of enormous influence, whose political and humanitarian ...

The death of Raila Odinga, a towering leadership figure in Kenya for more than three decades, looks set to fundamentally alter the country’s political landscape and test the cohesion of the fragile ...