Opinion
“Your ‘yes’ to God requires your ‘no’ to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and poor…” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and preacher, dared all believers at a grave time…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni addressing the media after casting his vote at a polling station during the presidential elections in Kirihura in western Uganda, February 18, 2016. [Boniface Okendo, Standard] History just repeated itself in the presidential elections…
The war against drugs and drug abuse can only be won through decisive action. [Courtesy] Kenya’s renewed…
Patients in desperate need, including those battling cancer, are being turned away or forced to pay…
When President William Ruto of UDA and Raila Odinga of ODM signed a agreement to work…
If you have felt a distinctive heaviness in the air this week, you are not alone. We have officially arrived at the doldrums of the year—that stretch of mid-January where the festive cheer has evaporated, but the end-of-month salary alert…
President William Ruto, Deputy President Prof Kindiki Kithure and Prime Cabinet Minister Musalia Mudavadi share a light moment during the Third National Executive Retreat at…
Weekly Opnions Round Up
Some of the delegates attending the inaugural Consortium of International Agriculture Research Centres (CGIAR) Science Week, at the United Nations Office, Nairobi. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Africa…
President William Ruto inspects the completed works at the Galana-Kulalu Food Security Project in Kilifi and Tana River counties.[FILE/Standard] In a continent bedeviled with conflict in smaller,…
Residents of Loruk wade through the submerged Marigat–Loruk road, after Lake Baringo’s rising waters flooded the key route, on September 3, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph,…
Ziporah Boyani, a Grade 4 classteacher at Royal Metropolis Academy in Nyamira teaches her pupils. [File, Standard] Quality education is at the heart of both…
