Kenya newspapers weigh Trump’s midterm defeat, UDA defections, a Sh480m fraud-linked crash probe and rising living costs in Thursday’s front-page headlines.

As the 2027 presidential election nears, efforts by President William Ruto are in top gear to win over Wiper Patriotic Front ...

A 44-year-old senator, Edwin Sifuna, has emerged as a rising challenger to Kenya's President William Ruto ahead of next year's election as he channels anger over political violence and corruption. The ...

Kenyan celebrities weigh in on politics after the 2024 Gen Z Finance Bill protests. Ruth Bolo and Alex Mwakideu explain fan ...

Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial presidential candidate whose populist campaigns rattled authorities and gave him an outsized influence on political life in his East ...

Former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua is facing a fresh challenge to his dominance of Mt Kenya politics after influential lawmaker Ndindi Nyoro quit William Ruto’s ruling United Democratic Alliance ...

2027 elections test is whether its institutions can break the connection between coercion and political advantage.

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 ...

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 ...

Blurry video of a policeman beating a demonstrator; a photograph of angry slum-dwellers storming a food depot; headlines featuring the word “violence.” That, more or less, sums up the news from Kenya, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial presidential candidate whose populist campaigns rattled authorities and gave him an outsized influence on political ...