As Kenya prepares for its next general election, due in less than 20 months’ time, 2026 will prove to be a critical year. With local and global restraints on political violence being hollowed out at ...

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya (EAK) convened a prayer ...

At least 24 people, including a 9-year-old girl, have been killed in Kenya in the violence that erupted after the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta, according to the Kenya National Commission on ...

Polling opened on Thursday in the Isiolo South parliamentary by-election and three ward contests in West Kabras, Muminji, and Evurore, with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) ...

Kenya’s new elections are scheduled for October 26. If they take place, it appears increasingly likely that their results will lack credibility, and that there will be violence. The standoff between ...

Kenya's election took an ominous turn on Wednesday as violent protests erupted in the capital and elsewhere after opposition leader Raila Odinga alleged fraud, saying hackers used the identity of a ...

The first of the debates organised by a consortium of Kenyan media was scheduled for Monday and the second on July 24. "President Uhuru Kenyatta will not participate in the presidential debates,"David ...

Human rights abuses marred the presidential elections in Uganda in January 2026 and the contested polls in Tanzania in October 2025. As neighbouring Kenya enters a pre-electoral phase with ...

President William Ruto has named Erastus Edung Ethekon, a relatively unknown human rights lawyer from Turkana county, as his nominee for chairperson of Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries ...