A 44-year-old senator, Edwin Sifuna, has emerged as a rising challenger to Kenya's President William Ruto ahead of next ...

Kenya has repeatedly used treason charges to frame dissent as a threat, from the June 2024 parliament storming to activist ...

President William Ruto is consolidating his Nairobi base ahead of the 2027 election while opposition leaders test their ...

A sustained campaign by environmentalists and resistance from local communities threaten Kenya’s plan to break ground on its first nuclear power plant next year. Does the government have the political ...

Criminal gangs have carried out a spate of violent attacks targeting civil society and opposition gatherings ahead of the ...

Voter registration is expected to rise in Western Kenya from 2.6 million recorded in the last election cycle to 3.5 million, according to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, creating ...

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 ...

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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s political word of the moment is “goonism,” frequently uttered by national leaders to convey annoyance at the gangs that intimidate those whose political activities they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The body of former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga who had been receiving treatment in India when he died, arrives at the Jomo ...

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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial presidential candidate whose populist campaigns challenged one-party rule, rattled authorities and gave him outsized ...