OPINION: For Uganda, stability without legitimacy cannot last

By Guest Writer,

By the Kofi Annan Foundation On Saturday, Uganda’s electoral commission announced that 76-year-old incumbent President Yoweri Museveni won a sixt...

bobi , Museveni , uganda

Ugandans choose between Bobi Wine and longtime leader Museveni in tense election

By Reuters,

Ugandans began voting on Thursday in a presidential election pitting long-time leader Yoweri Museveni against an opposition galvanized by a popular si...

Bobi Wine , uganda , yoweri museveni

Japan presses on with Olympics preparations despite Covid surge

By Reuters,

Japan’s government is continuing with preparations to hold the Tokyo Olympics this summer as planned, following a postponement because of the corona...

JAPAN , olympics

Iran seizes tanker as tensions rise with the US

By CNN,

Iran announced Monday that it had resumed enriching uranium to 20% purity, far beyond the limits laid out in the 2015 nuclear deal, in a move likely t...

Iran , tanker

Year in review: Court cases for FKF and a contentious election

By Jacob Icia,

@icia_jacob When the Covid-19 pandemic stopped every football activity from March and for the better part of 2020, one aspect of the beautiful game c...

FKF , Nick Mwendwa

Olympics-Domestic sponsors extend contracts for delayed Tokyo games

By Reuters,

Tokyo 2020 organisers said on Thursday that all 68 domestic sponsors for the Summer Olympics have agreed in principle to extend their contracts for th...

2020 , 2021 , JAPAN , olympics , sponsors , Tokyo

President-elect Joe Biden seeks to unite nation with victory speech

By CNN,

President-elect Joe Biden addressed a deeply divided nation Saturday night, turning to the challenges ahead by grounding his victory speech in the spi...

Biden , kamala harris , Trump

Biden confident, Trump accuses Democrats of trying to steal tight White House election

By Reuters,

Democrat Joe Biden said he was confident of victory and President Donald Trump accused Democrats of trying to steal the election on Wednesday as a tig...

Joe Biden , President Donald Trump , US Elections , White House

Americans head to the polls after tumultuous campaign

By Reuters,

Americans head to the polls on Tuesday to conclude a bitter and divisive U.S. election campaign, as Republican President Donald Trump seeks to overcom...

Chebukati unleashes scathing attack on Raila over referendum cost

By Citizen Reporter,

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) boss Wafula Chebukati has termed Raila Odinga's claims on the cost of a referendum as offen...

BBI , Chebukati , IEBC , raila , Referendum

Trump, Biden engage in spirited last debate before Election

By VOA,

U.S. Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, engaged in a spirited debate Thursday night jus...

us election

States bracing for possible violence as US election nears

By VOA,

Officials across the United States already charged with securing the upcoming presidential election are taking additional precautions, bracing for the...

US Elections

Trump says catching COVID-19 was ‘blessing from God’

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump declared that catching the coronavirus was a “blessing from God” that exposed him to experimental treatments he vowed ...

coronavirus , Trump

Trump faces backlash for removing mask on return to White House

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump faced a fresh backlash on Tuesday for removing his mask when he returned to the White House and urging Americans not to fe...

COVID-19 , Donald Trump

Biden leads by 10 points as majority of Americans say Trump could have avoided coronavirus

By Reuters,

Democrat Joe Biden opened his widest lead in a month in the U.S. presidential race after President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, a...

coronavirus , Joe Biden , kamala harris , Mike Pence , President Donald Trump

Trump’s medical status unclear as doctors say he could be discharged on Monday

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump could be discharged from the hospital where he is being treated for COVID-19 as soon as Monday, according to his doctors, altho...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , Dr. Sean P. Conley , President Donald Trump , Walter Reed , White House

Insults and interruptions mar first Trump-Biden debate

By Reuters,

Interrupted repeatedly by President Donald Trump in their presidential debate on Tuesday, an exasperated Joe Biden resorted to insults and name-callin...

Trump

President Kenyatta’s dilemma: What it would cost to dissolve Parliament

By Sam Gituku,

Should President Uhuru Kenyatta heed Chief Justice David Maraga’s advice to dissolve Parliament, what would it take for the electoral body IEBC to c...

Chief Justice David Maraga , President Uhuru Kenyatta

Nyamweya and co. dismiss FKF election preps, hint at plans for own poll

By Jacob Icia,

Aspirants that abstained from presenting their nomination papers for the upcoming Football Kenya Federation (FKF) elections have dismissed the exercis...

FKF , Nicholas Musonye , Sam Nyamweya , Twaha Mbarak

OPINION: A wasted Damascus moment? Why the window for electoral reforms is fast closing in

By Guest Writer,

When the Supreme Court of Kenya returned its verdict on the August 8, 2017 elections, there was a general feeling that we had arrived at our road to D...

BBI , Chebukati , Chiloba , IEBC , Issack Hassan , raila , ruto