How M-Pesa quietly became Kenya’s shock absorber against rising prices
A year-long look at how households changed the way they hold mobile money as prices rose — and what it reveals about informal saving habits.
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The quiet fight over who controls Nairobi’s next transit corridor
Behind the ribbon-cutting language of a new bus corridor lies a much less tidy story about land, county politics and who gets first claim on the route.
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Why some coffee cooperatives are outperforming private millers this season
A season-by-season comparison of payout timing across central Kenya suggests governance, not scale, is the deciding factor this year.
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Why the shilling’s calm this year is hiding a harder story underneath
On paper it has been a steady year for the currency. A closer look suggests the calm owes more to seasonal inflows than to any structural fix.
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The quarry licences nobody remembers approving
Months of records requests trace a cluster of quarrying licences along a protected river buffer back to a single meeting that, according to its own minutes, never discussed quarrying.
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Inside the succession math shaping next year’s party primaries
Coalition arithmetic is being shaped less by ideology than by which incumbents are termed out — and who they can credibly hand their base to.
