“One minute I am making tea and the next minute the Cats (Bulldozers) were there. Then it was painful to see my house down”. In advanced years, veteran of previous […]

Justice Chacha Mwita of the Constitutional and Human Rights division of the High Court of Kenya has ruled that Political Parties are bound by the gender requirement in the constitution. […]

Finally, it had to come to this: Parliament has 60 days to enact a law on the implementation of the two-thirds gender rule for elective positions. If it fails, it […]

Kenya currently hosts about 600,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and ­­— the largest number — Somalia. Refugees are mainly hosted in […]

No, it’s not a modern, politicised version of the medieval controversy as to how many angels can stand (or dance) on the head of a pin. It’s a question raised […]

By COLLINS OMULO Nairobi City County loses billions of shillings to cartels in informal settlements every year, a new study has revealed. Cartels, the study shows, run the economy of […]

The Two-Thirds Gender Rule The two-third gender rule is perhaps the best deal women got out of the 2010 constitution. It simply states that any state body, elected or appointed, […]

As long ago as the 18th century, Baron de Montesquieu, a French social and political philosopher argued that to guarantee liberty and good governance, political power must be shared between […]