A tear-gassed rally in Kimani Ichung’wah’s own constituency confirmed what Nairobi operators have been conceding for months: Ruto’s Mt Kenya grip has slipped from management problem to open confrontation — and the 2027 electoral map is being redrawn in public.
Kenya’s National Assembly has ratified a defence pact with France as 800 French troops settle into Mombasa. The deal raises urgent questions about sovereignty, jurisdiction, and whether Nairobi is becoming Paris’s new anchor in Africa after West Africa expelled French forces.
The brazen assault on Vihiga Senator Godfrey Osotsi in a Kisumu café exposes a dangerous escalation of political violence ahead of 2027 — and a state that seems unable or unwilling to stop it.
As Kenya’s fuel reserves dwindle to just 16 days of petrol amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis, Energy CS Opiyo Wandayi jetted off to Dubai — skipping a parliamentary summons and drawing calls for his resignation from Martha Karua.
President Ruto and former Deputy President Gachagua clashed publicly at the requiem mass of late Ol Kalou MP David Njuguna Kiaraho in Nyandarua, in a dramatic confrontation that exposed deep rifts in Mt Kenya politics ahead of the 2027 elections.
The arrest and forced resignation of Kenya’s top energy officials over an irregular Ksh4 billion fuel shipment has exposed deep rot in the petroleum sector — and the political fallout is far from over.
The Pretoria peace deal for Tigray is fraying as the TPLF accuses Addis Ababa of stalling on disarmament, humanitarian access, and transitional justice.
Kenya’s fractured opposition risks handing 2027 to the incumbent. Without a credible coalition-building process, the arithmetic simply doesn’t work.
The Orange Democratic Movement has moved to discipline its own Secretary General, Senator Edwin Sifuna — a dramatic internal rupture that lays bare the party’s deepening identity crisis ahead of the 2027 elections.
The High Court escalates Gachagua’s impeachment challenge to a seven-judge bench, calling it a case of historic constitutional significance.