Rasna Warah

The gruesome terrorist attacks in Paris have left the world shaken. Not only were the attacks carried out with the precision of a surgeon, they occurred in one of the world’s most loved and safest cities.

When James Wasserstrom, a top anti-corruption officer at the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, revealed a scheme that involved paying kickbacks worth $500 million to Kosovo officials and senior members of the UN mission, his passport was confiscated, his car and apartment s

On Sunday 10 March 2013, the day after Kenya’s electoral body, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), declared Uhuru Kenyatta as the winner of Kenya’s hotly contested presidential election by a slight margin, the outspoken writer Binyavanga Wainaina published an article in Br

The report shows that over the period 2000-2011, the first Somali Transitional National Government and the subsequent Transitional Federal Governments received bilateral aid totalling $308 million that was given mainly by Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Libya, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar a

"Once you have tasted the water of Mogadishu, you will always go back,” the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah told me during his recent visit to Nairobi en route to Somalia’s war-torn capital.

In her book The Shock Doctrine, Canadian author Naomi Klein argues that Western governments often use humanitarian relief and reconstruction as an excuse and an opportunity to force poor or strife-torn countries to adopt neoliberal economic models that ultimately serve the interests of Western co

I can usually spot a whistleblower from a mile away. He or she has that furtive look of a hunted animal.

Words and emotions are guarded. Secrecy borders on paranoia as the whistleblower decides who to trust and who not to.

I did not know who the Wabara were until I moved to Malindi.

I had heard the term used often by the local Giriama people but did not know what it meant until Zawadi, a local resident, explained it to me in Kiswahili.

In the first two decades of the 20th century, the Somali warrior-poet Seyyid Mohammed Abdulle Hassan (nicknamed the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the British) fought against European forces that were trying to assert their influence in Somalia.

Now that Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr Francis Muthaura have resigned from their posts, it is about time the government focused its attention on the real victims of the post-election violence of 2007/8.