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Rows of secondhand shoes displayed for sale at an open-air Kenyan market

Ash Where the Bales Stood: A Night Fire in Machakos and the Two Hundred Traders Starting Over

A weekend blaze tore through Machakos Mitumba Market as firefighters battled without enough water. Governor Wavinya Ndeti has pledged KSh 1 million and restocked shops — traders want hydrants.

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Construction workers in safety vests and hard hats at work on a high-rise building site in New York

The Paycheck Line in the Sand: What a Texas Court Ruling Means for Kenyans Building America

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A Kenyan matatu minibus travelling along a two-lane highway outside Nairobi under an overcast sky

The Slope at Nyanja: Six Lives Lost on the Highway Every Kenyan Journey Home Must Climb

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The historic Academy Building of Leiden University on the Rapenburg canal in the Netherlands

Twenty-Five Chances in a Thousand: Leiden University Opens Its Excellence Scholarship to Kenyan Master's Students

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Panoramic view of Zacatecas city in central Mexico, where Rerimoi Barsitei has been held since 2021

The Sentence Nobody Translated: A Kenyan Runner's Eighty-Year Wait in a Mexican Prison

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Sunset over a city skyline at dusk

Diaspora Sunset, Sat Jul 4: The Day Home Came Calling

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A scientist in a laboratory examines a sample under a microscope during medical research work

The Flight Path Flown in Reverse: How Marianne Mureithi Became UoN's First Female Professor of Medical Microbiology

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Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka, Kenya's former vice president, at a public appearance

The Name They Won't Say: Gachagua's Denial Keeps Kenya's 2027 Opposition Ticket a Guarded Secret

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Workers picking tea on the green rolling hills of Nandi County in Kenya's Rift Valley

Seven Bedrooms and a Money Cake: The Surprise an Australia-Based Daughter Carried Home to Nandi

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The Nairobi skyline showing Times Tower, headquarters of the Kenya Revenue Authority, beside the KICC

The Clean Slate Window: KRA's Third Amnesty Offers Diaspora Taxpayers a Way Out of Old Penalties

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The skyline of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the Kingdom Centre tower rising above the city at dusk

Three Days in Riyadh: Mudavadi Carries the Hopes of 300,000 Kenyan Workers Into Saudi Talks

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The modern brick and glass facade of Reading Crown Court in Berkshire, England, on a clear day

The Knife That Waited on London Road: Reading Court Jails Kenyan Man for the Murder of Linner Sang

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A passenger jet silhouetted against an orange sunset sky at an airport runway

The Jet That Tweeted Back: Why the Arrest of 'Princess Halima' Has Kenya's Online World Watching the Skies

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Sign outside a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office, the agency that decides green card applications

The July Squeeze: Green Card Doors Narrow for Kenyans in America as Three New Rules Take Hold

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A wall of grey wildfire smoke rises over homes and open ground in Superior, Colorado.

The Fourth Without Fireworks: Wildfires, Smoke and an Anxious Holiday for Kenyans in Colorado and Utah

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In-Depth

The European Central Bank tower and Frankfurt skyline at dawn, seen across the River Main

The Quiet Second Place: How Germany Overtook Britain as Kenya's New Remittance Powerhouse

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Aerial view of an iron ore mine cut into the red earth of Western Australia's Pilbara region

From Nairobi Runways to the Red Dirt: How Mercy Muigai's Mining-Camp Videos Are Rewriting the Kenyan Dream in Australia

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A scientist in a laboratory pipetting samples into vials, part of genomic disease surveillance research

The Sewers of Kisumu Are Talking: How a Kenyan Scientist's AI Bet Could Warn the World of the Next Outbreak

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A busy street scene in central Nairobi, Kenya, with pedestrians and vehicles moving past commercial buildings

The Errand That Ended on Park Road: How a KSh 10,000 Dispute at a State Youth Forum Left Cecil Ouma Dead

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Sun setting over the ocean at dusk

Diaspora Sunset, Thu Jul 2: The Cost of Leaving, Counted in People

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Dubai skyline at dusk seen from the water, towers lit against a fading sky

The Phone That Went Dead in Dubai: How a Missing Kericho Man Surfaced in a Deportation Camp

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