Mutuma Mathiu

Caption for the landscape image: What you need to know: My own view is that this is the season for political peace.

Caption for the landscape image: When I look at my country, I see a nation with serious economic challenges.

Caption for the landscape image: What you need to know: West African migrant arrivals in the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory, in January 2024 grew 1000 per cent compared to 2023.

Caption for the landscape image: What you need to know: Yes, we have institutions of State and troop to the polls every five years, but we are a “goatocracy".

Caption for the landscape image: What you need to know: Earlier in the week, President William Ruto visited former President Uhuru Kenyatta at his Gatundu home.

Caption for the landscape image: What you need to know: No one needs to be threatened to go for lunch, they know they need it.

Caption for the landscape image: You would think that it is the easiest thing in the world to explain.

Caption for the landscape image: What you need to know: I suppose what the Gen-Zs expected was for the powers-that-be to press the reset button and set the country on a different path.

Caption for the landscape image: What you need to know: Abductions and the outrage and revulsion they cause are also deadly as a political and propaganda tool.

Caption for the landscape image: What you need to know: For the longest time, sugarcane was a disaster. Farmers were broke and broken, never paid.