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Kenya is full of potential, seen in entrepreneurs, farmers, and professionals competing globally despite limited support. Yet potential alone is not enough.
While political power remains fluid and transient, the spiritual realm, whether expressed through Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, or Christianity, rests on truth.
The Pope must name Putin’s war in Ukraine, call on Israel to restrain, and press Muslim leaders to disown extremism without caveat or equivocation.
Kenyan diaspora sends billions home but remains excluded from decision-making, valued for money more than ideas and expertise.
How President Ruto faces mounting political and economic pressures ahead of 2027.
The Odinga family holds the key to ODM’s survival. To save ODM, they must reunite the ranks, just as Raila did in steering the party through past political storms and entrenching it across Kenya.
Kenya can achieve a rapid economic transformation similar to Singapore if President Ruto pursues bold structural reforms, fiscal discipline, anti-corruption measures, and industrial development.
Washington, London, Paris, Beijing, Moscow and Canberra market themselves as defenders of democracy, yet their global conduct contradicts their sermon.
Without value-driven citizens, Kenya’s social, economic, spiritual and political progress stays a mirage.
The Ebola quarantine centre agreed upon between the United States and Kenya in Laikipia must be viewed through the lens of national interest, not sectarian squabbling.
History is repeating itself in Gusiiland. In 2002, the late Simeon Nyachae turned the region into a Ford People zone. All 10 parliamentary seats went his way.
UN has struggled to fulfil its core mission of maintaining international peace and security since it's founding 80 years ago
The World Bank should strengthen accountability before and after lending by requiring greater transparency, oversight and enforcement.
World Bank and other multilateral lenders should strengthen accountability measures to ensure development loans deliver meaningful public benefits.
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