Kenya

On a side street in Nairobi’s bustling neighbourhood of Shauri Moyo, Faisal Ngila shouts to street vendors, motorbike taxi drivers and pedestrians.

In the long view, neither effort matters: Not ambassador Macharia Kamau’s insipid and inept letter to the UN Security Council nor ambassador Monica Juma’s dogged, more professional and ultimately successful effort to get the ICC issue on the AU Summit agenda in the first place and eventually to s

This is the Jubilee year for Kenya; fifty years since the country got independence from Britain, the colonial master. Although the country has made significant strides in many spheres of life, the country has not been able to address its largest constituency- the youth.

Undoubtedly Mau Mau freedoms fighters were the real heroes of Kenya, who shed their blood to see their country liberated from British rule. Many were brutally tortured, raped, some died and others lost limbs. This freedom movement was based on injustices over land.

Alliance Française,
Loita/Monrovia Street,
Nairobi, Kenya.

To the Alliance Française, June 6, 2013

RE: The Nairobi Israeli Film Festival, 2013

Tax havens such as Ireland and the Cayman Islands have become a key driver of vast inequality around the world, siphoning somewhere between $21 and 32 trillion from the global economy.

We are shocked and saddened by the recent turn of events.

On May 14, the 17 human rights activists participated in an “Occupy Parliament” protest against the newly inaugurated Parliamentarians’ demand for salary increases and subsequent threat to disband the Salaries and Remuneration Commission – a constitutionally mandated commission to set and periodi

Kenya loses over Kshs 100 billion (about US$ 1.1 billion) every year to tax incentives, avoidance and exemptions, [1] more than the annual national budget for health and sanitation.

What an uncanny assault on the senses! An unfamiliar stench saturates the air around and if I weren’t looking I don’t think I could have quite told what it was. What smells like a fertilizer experiment gone bad – manure-ish-blood!