Abdullahi Boru Halakhe

Since the end of the Cold War, in which it became the sole Super Power, the United States has preferred to go alone, on many issues where multilateralism would have been better. America’s single-minded unilateralism has bred discontent across the globe.

The end of the Cold War saw Kenya’s leverage as the bulwark against the spread of communism in the East African region wane. Kenya until then was held up as the poster child for stability that comes with being in the Western camp as opposed to being in the Eastern bloc.

Charles Obbo’s thoughtful piece that appeared in the Saturday Nation, November 7, “Is it the end, or a second life for Kenya media?” was a welcome breath of fresh air in a week where Kenya’s two mainstream newspapers - The Daily Nation and The Standard - went for each other’s jugulars in a circu

Kenya’s intervention in Somalia October 2011, the first since the country’s independence, came as a surprise to many observers in the Horn of Africa.

Kenyans were rightly outraged when their already well paid legislators asked for a pay rise. Some were louder and more creative in their outrage than others.

Kenya has had roughly three phases of the reform movement- the anti-colonial movement, the second liberation, which called for multiparty politics?, and we are now in the third stage, the entrenchment of the reforms inaugurated in the second phase, with the signature achievement being the passage

The 2013 election was pivotal in many respects. It was the first election under the new constitution promulgated in August 2010.