Veering off the path of peaceful power-sharing

The political climate is growing increasingly antagonistic in Burundi, where many of today’s political parties were yesterday’s rebel groups.

New strains of HIV spreading in fishing communities

A study of HIV-positive people in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda has found that more than a quarter have “recombinant” viruses that might threaten both treatment and prevention efforts.

An open letter to a conman’s prop

First, let me apologize for getting back to you less promptly than the urgency of the matter at hand calls for. I do so because just like justice delayed is justice denied, I consider this late response – a response denied.

Diary of an HIV-positive woman (59)

Hi. My name is Jessica but my friends (who are very few) call me Jezzie while my enemies –a constituency of them – call me Jezebel. I am 25 years old and HIV-positive. I am a mother of 5 -year –old twins – David (Didi) and Terry (Titi). This is my continuing story.

Kenya moves on

As wisdom of yore would have it, there is time for everything. For Kenya, it is without a doubt, the time to move on. Buoyed by the strong wings of hope, and powered by the sure winds of canon, Kenya promulgates the new constitution.

It’s baby Kenya!

It’s baby Kenya! That would have been the cry of a midwife heralding the birth of a new nation, well more than 45 years ago. However, the true birth has belatedly, but pleasantly so, eventually come

Mohamed Barre Ali, “Our land has become a warzone”

Mohamed Barre Ali lives in Dadachabulla, in the northeastern Kenya area of Wajir South. Ali, an elder and chairman of the local peace committee, told IRIN how years of instability in neighbouring Somalia are affecting his village, about 10km from the border.

Referendum will “increase humanitarian needs”

Humanitarian needs in Southern Sudan, where some 4.3m people already need food assistance and fewer than one in 10 earns more than US$1 a day, are likely to escalate after next year’s referendum on secession, says a government minister.

Adam versus Eve:Breaking up

Of course, Eve knows that crying will not bring him back but she does it anyway. It makes her feel better; the pain seems to flow out of the system through the tears. Thereafter, she feels lighter, it still might hurt but it becomes bearable.

Thrown out of the forest into a camp

Since March 2008, Beatrice Tamaska Kae has lived under a tarpaulin with her seven children in a camp after their eviction from a government forest in Trans Nzoia West district in western Kenya.

A bold move forward: Kenya’s new constitution proves skeptics wrong

At a time when anti-establishment sentiments are high in the United States, many Americans are searching for answers in their constitution, in an effort to turn back the clock to the way things once were

Where were you when Kenya was reborn?

There comes a time in life, when one sits down to ponder on some momentous happenings and pose the question above. At a time when Kenya has made its own brand of history, I will not be left behind by all pundits, without a word or two about this moment.