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Dec 10, 20223 min read
Let's serious with public safety, law and order
Today marks 74 years since the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights was adopted. The enduring lesson for us all is, when one...
Dec 6, 20223 min read
Let's interrupt gender violence and narratives that support it
The world is midway through the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. The recent conviction of Moses Gatama Njoroge provides...
Nov 25, 20223 min read
End the war on Ukraine
A delegation of Ukrainian leaders was in town this week. Listening to their experiences over the last nine months, I wondered whether we...
Nov 20, 20223 min read
CBC task-force must address state of disability rights in schools
With the 49-member Presidential Working Party on Education Reform completing its public consultations this month, it is time to look at...
Nov 12, 20223 min read
What difference could new Police Inspector General Japhet Koome make?
The fourth Police Inspector General of Kenya was sworn yesterday. As Japhet Koome assumes office, what might he find in his in-tray and...
Nov 5, 20223 min read
August poll was the most corrupt, let's put the IEBC in order now
Preventing reoccurring electoral nightmares requires work. As national and county administrations hit the mid-point for their 100-day...
Oct 31, 20223 min read
Weak oversight not a "few rogue officers" feeds police impunity
Suspected enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of foreign nationals over the last month has burst one of Kenya’s worst...
Oct 23, 20223 min read
Kenyan leaders, take key lessons from PM Truss quick fire exit
And just like that, the Prime Minister of the sixth richest economy in the world fell to her knees and resigned. What lessons can Kenyan...
Oct 17, 20223 min read
Cabinet Secretaries must come with new and consistent policy options
Tomorrow is World Food Day. With 4.2 million Kenyans facing acute food insecurity and 24 drought-stricken counties there is very little...
Oct 9, 20223 min read
Legal literacy will decongest police stations and prisons
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of legal aid in Kenya. As the Interior Ministry and the Office of the Attorney General reinvent...
Oct 1, 20223 min read
Not the shamba system but stronger forest governance systems is what we need
Last week’s column may have received an indirect scolding from Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Having corrected the Government’s...
Sep 25, 20223 min read
Kenyan state must step up capacity to produce enough food urgently
The global food crisis punctuated most of the heads of states’ speeches to the UN General Assembly this week. The 77th session takes...
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