President William Ruto serves lunch to students of Toi Primary School under the transformative Dishi Na County programme in Kibra Constituency,…
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The Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja briefing the press following Albert Omondi Ojwang’s death in police custody at Central…
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward…
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Erastus Edung Ethekon, together with IEBC Commissioners, during a media briefing at PrideInn Paradise -…
Nakuru ASK Chairman Perminus Migwi inspect a demo farm at the Nakuru ASK Show grounds on June 16, 2025.…
Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja inspects parade of honour during the official commissioning of fully equipped Mbaraki Police station in Mombasa on…
Trade PS Alfred Kombudo in Nairobi on August 9, 2024. [File, Standard] The Africa Growth Opportunity Act, AGOA finally came…
IEBC Chair Erustus Edung Ethekon (left) and IEBC CEO Marjan Marjan before the Public Accounts Committee, at Bunge Towers, Nairobi,…
Peter Musyoki, is a veteran newspaper vendor in Mombasa County. [File, Standard] Political campaigns, populism competition among the political class,…
Who is a valuer and what does he or she do? For many people, a valuer’s work is to “guess”…
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Mogadishu’s Police Commissioner Moallim Mahdi have officially registered as voters ahead of General Election slated…
Kitutu Central recruiting officer during police recruitment at Gusii Stadium, on March 24, 2022. [File, Standard] Tomorrow marks the launch…
A police officer takes recruits through physical exercise at Gusii Stadium during police recruitment on March 24, 2022. [File, Standard]…
Kenya has made remarkable progress as it prepares to scale up its nuclear energy programme. As many developing nations shift…
CaptionKaluma Boy and MC Chris on a raised podium surrounded by hundreds on Kenyan. [Courtesy/@annahree/TikTok] A rider came to my…
A drunk man at a bar. [Courtesy/GettyImages] Keria Nkumbo, a dusty trading centre on the border of Meru and Tharaka…
President William Ruto taking retired President Uhuru Kenyatta on a tour around State House. [Courtesy/PSCU] Former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s recent…
Where you have a real choice, what makes you stick with one product or another? Would you be surprised to…
Medic at Rabai sub-county hospital in Kilifi county attending a pregnant woman during her clinical visit to the facility. [Marion…
Some of the certified coffee seedlings donated by the government coffee revamping programme through the New KPCU. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]…
Assata Shakur. [Photo/AFP] Assata Shakur, the world’s most famous Black fugitive revolutionary, passed away this past week in Cuba. Shakur,…
Principal Secretary, State Department for Trade Regina Akoth Ombam. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] As Kenya readies to host the 24th Common…
Social Health Authority building in Nairobi. [File, Standard] The Social Health Insurance Fund (Shif) was launched with pomp and colour…
CS Kipchumba Murkomen at the launch of flagship report and Action plan by the Eastern and Southern Africa Commission on…
When an international student is granted a visa to study abroad, that visa will usually have conditions imposed. For Australia,…
Ballot boxes at a polling station during the past election. [File, Standard] As Kenya approaches its pivotal 2027 General Election,…
Youth during Gen Z protests in Nairobi. When youth carried the national flag to Parliament in the June and July…
Infrastructure that was destroyed following students unrest at Litein High School, Kericho county, on September 21, 2025. [Nikko Tanui, Standard] …
President William Ruto plans to transform Kenya into the ‘new Singapore.’ [File, Standard] Of late, we have heard Singapore mentioned…
Olkaria geothermal power station in Naivasha. [File, Standard] I write this week’s Green Message from Japan, the country where Kenya…
When I landed in Nairobi and saw the signs “Karibu Kenya” at the airport, I immediately felt at home. As…
Malawi President-elect Peter Mutharika. [AFP] A hush has fallen over southern Africa following the shock election defeat of Malawi’s Lazarus…
UN Secretary General Antony Gutteres speaks during the “Climate Summit 2025” on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly…
President William Ruto signs a Bill into law at State House, Nairobi. [PCS] The 2010 Constitution heralded a new era…
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ODM leader Raila Odinga during a meeting with Nairobi Azimio Members of County Assembly at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Foundation, Nairobi,…
Vultures act as nature’s clean-up crew, removing rotten carcasses from our environment. [Courtesy] On the first Saturday of September every…
Taxation concept. [Courtesy] The rejection of the Finance Bill 2024 by Kenya’s Gen Z was more than a protest. It…
File image of Kenya School of Law. [Courtesy] For thousands of Kenyan law students studying in and outside the country,…
Teenage pregnancy crisis. [File, Standard] World Contraception Day will be marked tomorrow. The day highlights one of the most important…
Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the central Gaza…
Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera. [Agencies] Comparisons have been drawn between Malawi’s recently concluded presidential election and Kenya’s upcoming poll, scheduled…
Former Chief Justice David Maraga. [File, Standard] In politics, small moves often create the biggest waves. What begins as a…
Former Chief Justice David Maraga. [File, Standard] In politics, small moves often create the biggest waves. What begins as a…
Kabarak University VC Henry Kiplagat (right) and Prof Julius Oyugi, Director of Research at UoN’s Institute of Tropical and Infectious…
Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera. [Agencies] Comparisons have been drawn between Malawi’s recently concluded presidential election and Kenya’s upcoming poll, scheduled…
Job seekers from Nyanza region flock NITA offices grounds in Kisumu to try their luck for overseas jobs during an…
President William Ruto during the International Youth Day forum at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, on September…
Charlie Kirk. [AFP] The heartless killing of Charlie Kirk while doing what he does best was both tragic and ironic,…
A billboard showing an image of US President Donald Trump (left) and prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, on a building…
A section of Maasai Mau Forest in Sasimwani, Nakuru County. [File, Standard] Kenya has emerged as a key player in…
An aerial view of Nyeri Town main terminus, on April 27, 2023. [File, Standard] Nyeri Town, situated approximately 150 kilometres…
Ballot boxes at Ruaraka constituency tallying centre, Stima Club, Nairobi, on August 11, 2022. [File, Standard] In a year and…
Only weeks into the third term, 29 schools have reportedly been closed indefinitely in Gatundu South, Kiambu County, due to…
The PS for Energy Alex Wachira (C) joins senior officers from Kengen during the second Sustainable Energy Conference (SEC25) in…
CS Kipchumba Murkomen at the launch of a flagship report and action plan by the Eastern and Southern Africa Commission…
Residential houses in a Rockingham Suburb – Western Australia. [Courtesy/GettyImages] People out here are going about their day-to-day business as…
Peter Mutharika, left, of the Democratic Progressive Party, and Lazarus Chakwera, leader of the Malawi Congress Party [File: AFP] What…
Former DP Rigathi Gachagua during a past interview at his Karen residence. [File, Standard] Rigathi Gachagua’s entrance into the presidential…
Caption One of the oldest and most enduring debates in world literary thought concerns the role of literature in society.…
Meta headquarters at Menlo Park, California. [ XN Iraki, Standard] Our next destination after visiting Google headquarters was Facebook,…
There are moments when governments must be reminded that not everything is for sale. Some national assets carry values that…
The conservatory orders granted by the High Court preventing the assent into law of the Constitution of Kenya (amendment)…
Ministry of Information Communication and Digital economy Cabinet Secretary William Kabogo while Walking from Kenya News Agency offices at Nairobi…
There was a time in Kenya’s urban churches when Kiswahili flowed from the pulpit with the precision of a surgeon’s…
In another act of complete disregard for the international community, Israeli forces have escalated their assault on Gaza, killing at…
On a stretch of land between Namibia and South Africa, a new pipeline is set to carry the promise of…
Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry of Kenya Deborah Barasa,plant a bamboo tree on, September 18th 2025, during world Bamboo day celebration,which coincide…
Gen Z protest aftermath destruction in Nairobi CBD on June 26, 2025. [Boniface Okendo, Standard] In the annals of Greek mythology, the…
FKF President Hussein Mohamed (left) and SportPesa CEO Ronald Karauri at the official launch of the 2025/26 FKF Premier League…
President William Ruto during a meeting with over 10,000 teachers at State House, Nairobi.[PCS] In a strange twist of fate,…
Study shows countries such as Nigeria and Zimbabwe, have enough projects in the pipeline to potentially transition away from fossil…
Political decision-making is rarely linear; it is often an entanglement of competing interests, historical wounds, structural limitations, and emergent crises.…
President William Ruto during a meeting with over 10,000 teacheers at state house. [File, Standard] When President William Ruto hosted teachers…
The Judiciary is imperfect, but imperfection does not justify indiscriminate populist vilification. [File, Standard] “The life of the law has…
Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen during International Identification Day celebration and Jukwaa la Usalama Forum in Homa Town, on September 16,…
A teacher takes pupils through a lesson under a makeshift classroom in Turkana county. [File, Standard] Kenya loves to celebrate…
Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip…
Security officers keep vigil at Mvita tallying centre, Mombasa. [File, Standard] A recent gazette notice by the Independent Electoral and…
Participants march along Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi, during celebrations to mark World Spinabifida Hydrocephalus Day. [File, Standard]] Children born with excessive…
People pay their respects during a candlelight vigil for youth activist and influencer Charlie Kirk at a makeshift memorial at…
President William Ruto Initiatives such as the Affordable Housing Programme, labour mobility abroad, digital hubs, and ClimateWorx are creating…
An attendee holds a picture of late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk during a vigil in his memory at Desert…
Senior advocate Kyalo Mbobu.[Courtesy] The past week has been a dark one for the Law Society of Kenya (LSK)…
Residents at a supermarket that was set ablaze during protests in Kathmandu on September 13, 2025. [AFP] On September 9…
Demonstrators carry an injured victim (C) during a protest outside the Parliament in Kathmandu on September 8, 2025, held…
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja appears before the Senate Energy Committee over a dispute with Kenya Power at Parliament Buildings, April…
Charlie Kirk. [Photo:AFP] Kirk was against minorities, but he didn’t have to die The heartless killing of Charlie Kirk while…
Kericho County Govenor Eric Mutai at the Senate Chambers, Parliament, Nairobi on August 27, 2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] In what…
Over the past decade, the term masterclass has become one of the most overused phrases in education and training. Once…
Stealing a credit card through a laptop concept for computer hacker. [Courtesy/Istock] There is no doubt that Kenya needs a…
People clean residential area after Russian airstrike in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, May 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Ukraine…
Ukrainian servicemen participate in training on how to destroy drones, practicing their shooting skills on balloons in Kharkiv region on…
Wonder why the Church struggles to respond to contemporary challenges effectively? It is trapped in an old missionary model. When…
It was amazing grace that kept me in Australia as an international student. The journey of international education is one…
Bunge la Mwananchi members during anti-Finance Bill protests along Moi Avenue, Nairobi, on June 26, 2024. [File, Standard] In urban centres…
Parliament during a past session. [File, Standard] There was a time when Parliament stood as the beating heart of our…
There are many reasons why someone might suddenly decide to be a hitman. For some, they are hardened criminals who…
Farmers are exploited by middlemen who buy the produce at throwaway price. [File, Standard] Farmers in Kenya do all the…