OPINION: We need youth advocates now more than ever

By Rachel Ombaka,

We often associate advocacy with a dramatic event or impassioned cause and tend to think of advocacy on large scales, such as the rise of youth moveme...

Janet Mbugua

OPINION: Kenya’s big opportunity as it takes up EAC leadership mantle

By Guest Writer,

By Chris Diaz This past month has seen Kenya effectively take up the mantle of leading the integration of the East African Community (EAC). This...

East African Community

OPINION: Kibos evictions by Kenya Railways barbaric, crime against humanity

By Guest Writer,

By Eliud Owalo The on-going demolition of homes, business premises, churches and mosques by Kenya Railways in Kibos, Kisumu County constitutes a fl...

kenya railways , kibos

OPINION: COVID likely to spur housing boom in counties neighbouring Nairobi

By Guest Writer,

By Jeremy Gitonga In a recent interview with Citizen TV’s Yvonne Okwara, Unity Homes Executive Director John Latham revealed that the Covid-19 p...

Housing

OPINION: The seismic economic effects of coronavirus

By Rachel Ombaka,

Every day, the Ministry of Health provides us with COVID-19 statistics detailing new cases and deaths. For many of us this exercise has even become...

coronavirus , Oxfam , social protection

OPINION: Managing grief in times of COVID-19

By Guest Writer,

The sense of loss that accompanies COVID-19 is one that may not have been adequately expressed in words. When the pandemic hit, it was followed by ...

burial , coronavirus , COVID-19 , grief

KARUA: Redefining women leaders solidarity in political participation in Kenya

By Guest Writer,

Solidarity has been defined as “unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest: mutual support within ...

karua , male privilege , patriarchy , Women Leaders

BWIRE: It’s time for an honest national dialogue about Kenya

By Guest Writer,

By Victor Bwire Leaders across the political divide are each at and with each other. Few are willing to invest in honest discussions and dialogue o...

GACHURI: The new Auditor General must prove her worth, raise the bar even higher

By Francis Gachuri,

Almost one year later, the country will finally welcome its second Auditor General under the 2010 constitution. The National Assembly approved the ...

Auditor General , Nancy Gathungu

OPINION: The future of new cities in Kenya

By Guest Writer,

By Jeremy Gitonga The unfolding troubles bedeviling some large scale developers of residential houses in the country provide an important reali...

OPINION: Who would have thought that one global crisis would forever change the way humans worked?

By Guest Writer,

By Kagwe Kibugu Ever since COVID-19 ushered people into their respective homes and away from offices, work has rapidly shifted from desks and cubic...

DUALE: I came, I saw and I conquered

By Guest Writer,

Today marks the end of my seven years of service to the great people of Kenya as the Leader of Majority of the National Assembly. I was the first o...

duale , JUBILEE , KIMUNYA , ruto

DIAZ: A silver lining amidst COVID-19 pandemic

By Guest Writer,

The better part of Sunday April 12 saw the majority of social media platforms remain awash with doctored images showing Mt. Kenya as supposedly seen f...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , diaz , kilimanjaro

OIMEKE: Incorporate health education in school system to prevent future pandemics

By Guest Writer,

There is no doubt that Covid-19 has now become the world’s most challenging political and socio-economic crisis since the second World War. In Ke...

COVID-19 , ministry of health , Pavel Oimeke , President Uhuru Kenyatta

COVID-19: revealing the inequalities in the world of work

By Guest Writer,

While most workers will not have the opportunity to take the streets and raise their challenges, we need to enforce a core message: the COVID-19 disru...

COVID-19

OPINION: Act now or Kenyan hospitals will be overrun, doctors warn

By Guest Writer,

You do not remember this but that Wednesday afternoon you were overwhelmed by boredom after staying home for four consecutive days. So, when your f...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , Doctors , hospitals

OPINION: KQ’s bleak future as COVID 19 digs in

By Joseph Bonyo,

By Joseph Bonyo As the last of Kenya Airways plans taxi to parking at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) later today (Wednesday, March ...

coronavirus , Kenya Airways

OPINION: Where is the water for women at the grassroots to wash their hands?

By Citizen,

What a timing for the 2020 World Waters Day in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic! Even the world’s more economically developed countries have ...

coronavirus

SWILA: How Coronavirus has cost sports billions of dollars

By Isaac Swila,

Isaac Swila in Nairobi The Coronavirus pandemic spreading across the globe like wildfire has not only caused panic to millions of souls across the wo...

coronavirus , kenya , sports

OPINION: Uhuru’s suspension of new NHIF rules a welcome relief for special needs children. But for how long?

By Citizen,

In the last week or so, I have been having discussions here on the financial costs special needs parents face. As I had explained in an earlier thr...

NHIF rules , special needs