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Anger: Police officers use tear gas and clubs to disperse demonstrators taking part in protests against proposed tax hikes. In response to the violence the president withdrew the finance bill. Photos: Boniface Muthoni/Getty Images

Under-fire Kenya govt to review state salary hikes

Peaceful marches mostly led by Gen-Z youth against tax hikes, which have since been scrapped, turned violent, with dozens injured or killed in clashes with the police

Kenya’s President William Ruto. (Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images for Global Citizen)

Kenya’s Ruto pulls finance bill after protest deaths

Many citizens are angry with the government as they grapple with a rising cost of living

Identity: Government officials and pathologists prepare to start the analysis of Shakahola Forest massacre victims. Photo: Simon Maina/AFP

First Kenya cult massacre bodies released

Largely Christian Kenya has struggled to regulate unscrupulous churches and cults

The idea of an electronic register of citizens is not particularly novel. However, such schemes have always been opportunities for illicit enrichment. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

Kenya’s push for a national ID raises red flags

There is a lot of money to be made from exploiting Kenyans’ personal data, and no shortage of unscrupulous politicians willing to do the exploiting

SMSs used as a tool of hate in Kenya

When Joyce Mandela’s cellphone beeped to signal she had a SMS, the 27-year old Kenyan expected a note from a friend. Instead, she found a message of hate. ”If your neighbour is a…

Lawyers say 8 000 Kenyans killed in sect crackdown

More than 8 000 Kenyans have been executed or tortured to death since 2002 when police launched a crackdown on a banned, politically-linked sect, a group of Kenyan lawyers said…

Kenya police suspected of executing nearly 500

A human rights panel on Monday implicated Kenyan police in the execution of nearly 500 men in the country during a months-long crackdown on the ultra-violent Mungiki gang. The…

‘Hundreds dead’ in Kenya gang crackdown

Police may have killed hundreds of people in a crackdown on Kenya’s notorious Mungiki gang, a rights group said on Thursday, in a growing national controversy ahead of a…

‘Executed’ corpses in Kenya terrify villagers

A series of bodies found dumped in secluded bushland on the edge of Kenya’s capital Nairobi has terrified locals and brought accusations of police executions in their war on the…