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Kenya

  • Locals fear that Lamu could be transformed by LAPSSET. Credit: Nick Young.
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    “We’ll be like a museum”: Lamu locals fear huge regional infrastructure plan

    By Nick Young
    June 20, 2018
    The multi-billion-dollar LAPSSET project promises to transform Kenya — including the oldest Swahili settlement on the African coast. This is the first part in the ...
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    TEDx comes to the refugee camp (aka Think Your Way out of Oppression!)

    By Hanno Brankamp
    June 12, 2018
    Rebranding refugees as entrepreneurs and camps as places of opportunity shows the boundless cynicism of neoliberal humanitarianism. On 9 June, the UN Refugee Agency ...
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    Corruption’s big week

    By Africa Insiders
    May 31, 2018
    Welcome to the free section of the Insider’s Newsletter. To get the full newsletter, subscribe here! The bits non-subscribers are missing out on this ...
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  • Ambassador Macharia Kamau. Credit: IDLO.
    KenyaPolitics

    US intervention in Kenya? No thanks.

    By Macharia Kamau
    March 6, 2018
    The suggestion the US should intervene is based on half-truths and is an affront to sovereignty, argues Kenya’s Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs. That Mark Bellamy ...
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  • At an opposition rally in Homa Bay, Kenya. Credit: NASA.
    KenyaPolitics

    How and why the US should intervene in Kenya

    By Mark Bellamy & Johnnie Carson
    February 27, 2018
    The Kenyan government is launching an assault on the rule of law. External partners are needed to help change this trajectory. Kenya is currently ...
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  • Journalists get ready at a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas.
    KenyaPoliticsTop story

    Kenyatta’s grand plan to silence Kenya’s free press

    By George Ogola
    February 8, 2018
    Since coming to power, Kenyatta has tried to control the media through co-optation or force. The shut down of TV stations is his latest ...
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  • KenyaSocietyTop story

    Meet some of the men redefining masculinity in Kenya

    By Kevin Ouma & Alice McCool
    January 4, 2018
    While a crisis of masculinity is being witnessed the world over, it looks different in every region. In Kenya, a heady mix of influences ...
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  • The Endorois community has suffered systematic repression by the Kenyan authorities, beginning with their eviction from ancestral lands. Credit: Minority Rights Group.
    KenyaSociety

    Could Global South solidarity finally ensure justice for Kenya’s Endorois?

    By Martin Mavenjina
    December 13, 2017
    The Endorois have been fighting for compensation ever since their unlawful removal from ancestral lands in the 1970s. Four long decades since being illegally ...
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  • Opposition leader Raila Odinga addresses supporters at a rally. Credit: Raila Odinga.
    KenyaPolitics

    Kenya’s election rerun: What happened today. What happens tomorrow.

    By Aly Verjee
    October 25, 2017
    What matters now is that President Kenyatta demonstrates restraint in dealing with protesters and shows magnanimity in victory. From 6am tomorrow morning, many, but perhaps ...
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  • On the campaign trail with President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto. Credit: Uhuru Kenyatta.
    Editor's PicksKenyaPolitics

    Siasa na Kusengenyana (aka When Kenyan politicians switch from English)

    By Nanjala Nyabola
    October 3, 2017
    Kenya’s political discourse takes place in two very different realms: one conducted in English, one not.  The Supreme Court’s ruling on 1 September was ...
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