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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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Faith Kipyegon running on the track in Kenyan colours during a championship race

Three-Tenths of a Second: Faith Kipyegon's Streak Ends in Eugene, and Monaco Gets the Reply

Nikki Hiltz outkicked the greatest miler of her generation on July 4 at Hayward Field. Kipyegon, nursing a hamstring since Shanghai, has already chosen her answer: a loaded 3,000m in Monaco on Friday.

39 minutes ago4 min

The Nairobi city skyline rising beyond green savannah grassland under a hazy sky

The Eve of Seven Seven: Kenya Braces as Saba Saba Returns With a March to Parliament's Door

41 minutes ago4 min

A Kenya Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in flight showing its red, white and green livery

Turning Back Over Chad: The Night Kenya Airways' New York Dreamliner Came Home Early

42 minutes ago4 min

A wide Moscow avenue with apartment blocks and traffic under an overcast Russian sky

The Call That Never Comes: A Kenyan Family's Vigil for a Son Lost in Russia's War

44 minutes ago5 min

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

2 days ago5 min

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

2 days ago5 min

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

2 days ago4 min

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

2 days ago5 min

Sunset over a city skyline at dusk

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

2 days ago3 min

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

2 days ago5 min

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

2 days ago4 min

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

2 days ago4 min

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

2 days ago4 min

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

2 days ago4 min

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

2 days ago4 min

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

4 days ago5 min

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

4 days ago5 min

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

4 days ago5 min

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

4 days ago5 min

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

4 days ago5 min

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

4 days ago5 min

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

4 days ago5 min

Sun setting over the ocean at dusk

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

4 days ago3 min

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

4 days ago5 min

The terminal building at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, where bodies of Kenyans who die abroad arrive home.

The Price of the Last Flight Home: Zack Apella's Family Faces a KSh 4 Million Bill to Bury Him in Kenya

4 days ago5 min

A stained blood smear showing the elongated, sickle-shaped red blood cells that define sickle cell anaemia.

The Journey Continues, Fam: Joe Mudukiza's Long Fight With Sickle Cell, and the Belgian Door He Chose Not to Walk Through

4 days ago5 min

The Colosseum in Rome at dusk, emblem of Italy, where Kenya hopes new legal work pathways will open

A Door Opens on the Mediterranean: What Kenya's New Labour Deal With Italy Promises the Next Wave of Workers Abroad

4 days ago5 min

Early morning traffic queues at the Westlands stage in Nairobi, where app-hailed taxis compete with matatus for passengers

The Floor Beneath the Fare: Kenya Moves to Set Uber and Bolt Prices, and the Diaspora's Favourite Side Hustle Feels the Tremor

4 days ago5 min

Panoramic view of the Auckland skyline and harbour with the Sky Tower rising above the waterfront

The Long Way South: New Zealand Opens Two New Residency Doors as the Anglosphere Tightens

4 days ago5 min

Passengers walking at the international departures terminal of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya

The Morning She Said She Was Going to Work: A Kitengela Family and the Secret Flights Carrying Kenyan Women to the Gulf

4 days ago5 min

Travellers walk through the international arrivals area of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya

Home, With Nothing in the Suitcase: Kenya Begins Airlifting Its People Out of South Africa's Xenophobic Storm

4 days ago4 min

A vegetable stall on the outskirts of Nairobi stocked with fresh produce, where daily food prices are set

Cheaper on Paper, Dearer at the Duka: What Kenya's June Inflation Numbers Mean for the Money Sent Home

4 days ago5 min

Floodlit football stadium at night with a green pitch and packed stands during a major match

Inches From Glory: Senegal's Seattle Heartbreak and the Night Africa's World Cup Ran Out of Time

5 days ago5 min

A scientist in a laboratory using a pipette to transfer samples into test tubes for genomic analysis

The Sewers That See Sickness Coming: A Nairobi Lab's $1.45 Million Bet on Predicting Africa's Next Outbreak

5 days ago5 min

A person typing on a laptop keyboard in low light, the glowing screen reflecting lines of text

The Delete Button Denied: Kenyan Court Strikes Down Website-Blocking Powers That Haunted the Diaspora's Digital Town Square

5 days ago5 min

The Juba-Nimule highway stretching through South Sudan, the trade corridor where Kenyan truck drivers face repeated attacks

The Longest Mile to Juba: A Beating on the Nimule Road Reignites Kenyan Drivers' Fight to Survive South Sudan's Trade Corridor

5 days ago5 min

Hayward Field stadium in Eugene, Oregon, home of the Prefontaine Classic, seen from the stands

The Mile Comes Home: Faith Kipyegon and a Kenyan Fourth of July at Hayward Field

5 days ago5 min

A person holds a smartphone displaying the WhatsApp application screen in close-up

The Number You No Longer Give: What WhatsApp's New Usernames Mean for the Kenyan Family Group Chat

5 days ago5 min

Sunrise over an African landscape

Diaspora Morning Brief, Thu Jul 2: Australia's Visa Fees Jump; M-Pesa's Owner Changes Hands

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