Wetang’ula warns 56 per cent of MPs may lose 2027 election

Speaker Moses Wetangula and Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wa during the three day legislative retreat for the national assembly at Lake Naivasha resort. [Antony Gitonga, Standard] Over 50 per cent of the... Read more »

Kenya: Funding Crisis Freezes Registration of 32 New Political Parties Ahead of 2027 Polls

Nairobi — Registration of new political parties has stalled after the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties (ORPP) ran out of funds to verify compliance requirements, potentially locking out dozens of... Read more »

How Africa’s green energy boom is stalled by ageing power grids

The world’s largest single-site solar plant Al Dhafra Solar PV, which is an Independent Power Producer project in Abu Dhabi. [James Wanzala, Standard] To draw and encourage investment in... Read more »

Kenya: Teacher Killed in Garissa Al-Shabaab Raid Employed in January 2025

Nairobi — A primary school teacher killed in a suspected Al-Shabaab attack in Garissa County had served just one year under the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), a brief but committed tenure marked... Read more »

KNCHR Condemns Teargassing of Worshipers in Nyeri Church, Demands Police Accountability » Capital News

NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 26 – The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has condemned what it termed a brutal and unwarranted police attack on worshippers at St. Peter’s Anglican Church of... Read more »

Oburu to critics: Orange party will stay in broad-based government

ODM party leader Oburu Oginga addresses party delegates in Kisii County, January 25, 2026. [Emmanuel Wanson, Standard]  ODM party leader Oburu Oginga and other officials stormed Kisii County to consolidate the... Read more »

China’s Spring Festival 2026 sparks early consumption surge

BEIJING, China, Jan 26 — As China heads into the Year of the Horse, consumer demand is being released earlier than usual, propelled by the country’s longest Spring Festival holiday on record... Read more »

Ratings agency Fitch gives Kenya a stable outlook, easing debt fears

National Treasury building in Nairobi. The National Treasury had underscored the severe consequences of a negative rating from global agencies. [File, Standard] The government received a crucial vote of confidence from... Read more »

Kenya: From Family Farm to Climate Tech – How One Kenyan Woman Is Helping Farmers Outsmart Drought

“Giving up is not an option – so many people depend on you,” the words of Maryanne Gichanga, a participant in a UN supported initiative, which aims to help farmers in Kenya... Read more »

DR. HESBON HANSEN: On Junet, Oketch Salah and the Misuse of Raila’s Legacy » Capital News

Politics, they say, is local. Kenyans—and probably the wider world—know that I come from Suna East in Migori County. Over the past few weeks, the sustained attacks on my Member of Parliament... Read more »