University student Allan Wadi Okengo who was sentenced to jail in January this year to serve a 2 year jail sentence for hate speech remarks on his Facebook page and undermining the authority of a public officer has been...
Wanjeri Nderu, a social justice crusader, was attacked by a stranger for talking about corruption at Langata mall on Monday, 29th June 2015. Wanjeri uses her online presence to talk about various injustices in Kenya including corruption. On her...
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery's gag order on sharing a video online that showed the last moments of the Al Shabaab before they attacked the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) Baure camp in Lamu County is lawful and constitutional.
The video which...
The court case against blogger Cyprian Nyakundi highlights the need to learn about online freedoms and responsibilities. Certainly the internet does not exist in a vacuum.
Nyakundi, after reading the summons to appear in the newspaper tweeted
Safaricom is suing me...
Bloggers in Kenya have had, in several instances, to ‘save’ their credibility and explain a few things including the doubts and the notion that they are just but social media trouble makers who will write about anything sensational and...
Kenyan security forces were ill-prepared in responding to the terror attacks in Mpeketoni Lamu county and Tana River county, and failed to protect innocent residents as the attacks continued.
This is according to a new report by the Human Rights...
The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) today launched 'The State of Blogging & Social Media in Kenya 2015 report' at the Nailab in an event that was graced by the Cabinet Secretary for ICT Fred Matiang'i who launched the...
The 2007/08 post election violence that left more than 1,000 Kenyans dead is one of the key reasons that led to the push for constitutional reforms in Kenya.
An audit report on the constitution has stated that the violence which...
Claire Nasike won this year’s Wangari Maathai Scholarship Fund Award, becoming the third winner of the annual environmental innovations award.
Nasike, who was also a Best Environmental/Agricultural Blog nominee at the recently concluded Kenyan Blog Awards in May is a...
When the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics released the new Gross Domestic Product Figures in September last year, Kenyans were happy after the country was pronounced a lower middle class economy.
According to the Wordbank, a lower middle income economy...
