As 2027 approaches, she faces the challenge of balancing service delivery with the rough edges of Mt Kenya politics.

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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is the highest-ranked political newcomer on this year's Forbes Most Powerful Women ...

President William Ruto's allies in Mt Kenya have laid out their plan to secure at least two million votes for the president ...

Once seen as a youthful moderniser, Governor of Nairobi Johnson Sakaja now presides over a capital drifting into disorder and ...

A new campaign, Queering the Ballot II, is revealing barriers faced by LGBTIQ+ voters in Kenya and calling for safer, ...

WASHINGTON — After weeks of rumblings about potential candidates for next year's mayoral race in DC, At-Large Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie confirmed that he is considering a potential run. "I have ...

Retired Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta with former Interior CS Fred Matiang'i during a grass root party members meeting at Thika Green Golf Resort on 7th November 2025. [Jubilee Party] The return of Former ...

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 ...

John Mukum Mbaku does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

When William Ruto won Kenya’s presidency in 2022, he styled himself as the hustler-in-chief, a man of the people taking on the country’s entrenched political dynasties. Two years later, as he looks ...