Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
eldoretlatest news & developments
Aerial view of a truck passing in the Konso hills and terraces, Omo Valley, Konso, Ethiopia on March 10, 2017 in Konso, Ethiopia. (Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

On the road with East African truck drivers

In East Africa, truck drivers are being attacked, robbed and used as diplomatic footballs

UN investigator probes Kenyan killings

A UN official began investigations on Monday into alleged brutality by Kenyan security forces, including accusations of summary executions by police.

Kenya athletes seek Olympic healing after tribal violence

They were the pride of Kenya, but the country’s athletics community could not escape the worst of the post-election tribal violence after disputed December polls. While two…

Despite Kenya peace deal, ethnic tensions simmer

Nearly three months after the worst massacre of Kenya’s post-election violence, children’s shoes and charred clothes remain in the ashes of a rural church where about 30 people…

Displaced Kenyans reunite after violence

With a tracing programme managed by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Kenya Red Cross Society, the hopes of Kenya’s displaced who are missing a relative are…

Kenya strife keeps world’s oldest pupil from school

Kimani Nganga sat in a classroom for the first time when he was 84. Four years later, the world’s oldest person to date to start school is stranded in one of Kenya’s camps for…

I came for peace, and I got a play

Somali warlords and intellectuals came in for mockery with the staging of a play dramatising the decade-old conflict in the Horn of Africa country.