SHIMOLI: Hague notebook
In April when the Ocampo Six made their initial appearance before the ICC, they were escorted by 40 MPs, but not this time round....
Are UK riots the work of criminals?
The vandalism, looting and arson that has gripped London and spread to other cities has taken the British public by surprise....
Is Kenya facing emergency food shortage or famine?
The World Food Programme reckons that Kenya is not experiencing famine....
Mubarak: From war hero to zero
Admittedly, dictators belong to the very cruel of the human species....
BLOG: MPs should be courteous
I am tired of lies and time wasting that MPs are so accustomed to. On Thursday at a press conference...
Why Wembley was a fitting finale
Barcelona's humiliation of Manchester United at Wembley during the Champions League final was just the revenge I had been waiting for. ...
BLOG: House got it wrong on "special sitting"
Call it by any other name, but Tuesday’s ceremony at Parliament had all the elements of a State Opening as inherited from the English Parliament....
BLOG: A business journalist's take on Musa Juma
Musa Juma's music once made former Nation business journalist WASHINGTON AKUMU to put aside his financial menu to direct his pen to music. Here is...
BLOG: Goodbye my Musa Juma
ESTHER MACHARIA - Musa Juma has joined Omondi Tony and the Limpopo Band is now in in heaven....
Where does Valentine leave the men?
It is 8.30am and everyone is sat at their desks ready for a new day, with no single idea that the office would be painted red in a few hours. ...
BLOG: House team decision on sittings puzzling
Parliament's Justice and Legal Affairs Committee has done well in regard to upholding the constitutional right of public participation. ...
What the new order in Kenya looks like in my village
A lot has changed in the village lifestyle since I last visited Kajulu in Kisumu....
BAKATA: National school quotas is the wrong fix
The government decision to introduce a quota system on admissions to national schools finally proves what most of us have been pointing out as...
BLOG: Parliamentary staff doing badly in PR
There seems to be a real problem when it comes to Public Relations –forget the text-book banner, magazine, guided-tour stuff, I mean the actual...
OTIENO: WikiLeaks fouls Kenya leaders' mood
Reports that WikiLeaks could release 1,821 US diplomatic cables on Kenya have predictably got our leaders in a foul mood considering the...
OTIENO: Prince William as the star in ‘White Mischief’
For a country that had its international image battered by the 2008 post-election violence, a piece of the British royal nuptials and the generous...
Why Kenyans should salute Tarus
A man fighting for his political life goes to the International Criminal Court headquarters at The Hague where he admits to answering “many...
City nightlife offers lessons in cultural integration
When I recently asked Philip Mwaniki, the Nation’s entertainment critic, for a quick review of the Club Galileo in Nairobi’s Westlands area, this...
This is a new Kenya
A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words. But the ones I saw last week of tough politicians lose their nerves in court, cut a lonely...
OTIENO:There's order to Kibaki’s chaos after all
For a country where politics is ever so fluid, I am often hesitant to view the outcome of political contests in Kenya through the narrow lens of...