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Larry Madowo won the Human Rights Defender Award 2026. Credit | The Star

Larry Madowo, Damaris Aswa Lead 2026 Honours as Kenya’s Human Rights Defenders Take Centre Stage

March 31, 20260

The night’s top honour—Human Rights Defender of the Year—went to Larry Madowo, whose reporting has persistently spotlighted governance failures, civic unrest and the lived realities of ordinary Africans.

President and President William Ruto in Washington DC. Credit | Facebook

When the Hand That Feeds You Also Ties Your Tongue: Kenya’s Civil Society Crisis

March 30, 20260

By Wahome Ngatia There is a particular kind of silence that costs lives. Not the silence of ignorance, but the […]

Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2026 – Cohort Nine

March 27, 20260

Amplifying and Elevating the Rising Stars of African Entrepreneurship The African Diaspora Network welcomes applicants to the annual BAF accelerator […]

Members of the Fifi Ruhara foundation empowering children in Kibera.

When One Person Shows Up: The Quiet Power of Individual Action

March 25, 20260

Fifi Ruhara loved books. Her family built a foundation so that love could outlive her. A Swedish author sent 38 copies of his book to a school in Nairobi. Philanthropists flew across the world to deliver ten desks. None of this was inevitable. All of it began with one person deciding to show up.

The Nairobi Hospital is owned by a Non-profit association of membership. Credit | Nairobi Hospital

When Charity Runs a Hospital: The Quiet Non-Profit Power Behind Nairobi’s Most Prestigious Medical Institution

March 17, 20260

Behind the gleaming corridors, the specialist wings, and the reputation that draws patients from Kigali to Mogadishu, sits a quietly powerful non-profit structure

President William Ruto (left) with Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) at State House. Credit | Dabanga Radio

Human Rights Foundation Rebukes Kenya Over RSF Passport Scandal

March 13, 20260

In a statement that quickly ricocheted across diplomatic and activist circles, HRF expressed alarm that Kenyan authorities allegedly granted travel documents to a “sanctioned Sudanese war financier and other individuals linked to Sudan’s genocidal RSF.” The organisation warned that such actions risk enabling sanctions evasion and indirectly supporting a paramilitary force widely accused of atrocities in Sudan’s brutal civil conflict.

Slain freelance journalist Joseph Owino (Myles) was found dead and tortured in Naivasha. Credit | Nation

Family of Slain Journalist Pleads for Justice as Rights Groups Called to Act

March 10, 20260

The family of Joseph Owino Myles, a freelance journalist, is calling on human rights and civil liberties organizations to intervene and demand accountability following his mysterious death in Naivasha, where his body was discovered badly bruised and bearing visible signs of torture.

Dr. Monica Juma is the new Executive Director of UNODC. Credit | Dr. Monica Juma

Monica Juma’s Long March to the Pinnacle of Global Diplomacy from Nairobi to Vienna

March 10, 20260

When António Guterres announced the appointment of Monica Juma as Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna, the statement was brief but unmistakably emphatic. The United Nations Secretary-General described the Kenyan diplomat as “a strategic senior leader with a depth of expertise, experience and knowledge spanning public policy making, execution and academia across critical areas of security, diplomacy and governance.”

Jobs

Job Opening -Compliance Manager at CIHEB Kenya

March 2, 20260

Location: Nairobi, KenyaApplication Deadline: 6th March, 2026 The Center for International Health, Education and Biosecurity (Ciheb-Kenya) is seeking a highly […]

Brian Kagoro the African Director of Open Society Foundation. Credit | Amnesty International

When Civic Space Meets State Power: Kenya’s Latest Clash with Activists

February 27, 20260

The abrupt denial of entry to a leading Pan-African lawyer, a violent attack on a regional rights defender, and the lingering legacy of another legal expert’s deportation have renewed concerns among civil society leaders about shrinking civic space and the treatment of dissent in a nation once seen as an East African beacon of democratic engagement.