Posted Sat Sep 03 12:52:55 EAT 2011

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....

File | NATION Riot police tackle a mob after a number of cars were set alight in Hackney, north London last Monday. The riots broke out in the north London district of Tottenham on August 6, following a protest against the death of a local man in a police shooting.
Posted Wed Aug 10 17:51:15 EAT 2011

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....

Posted Wed Aug 03 18:28:45 EAT 2011

Is Kenya facing emergency food shortage or famine?

The World Food Programme reckons that Kenya is not experiencing famine....

Posted Wed Aug 03 16:28:57 EAT 2011

Mubarak: From war hero to zero

Admittedly, dictators belong to the very cruel of the human species....

Posted Fri Jul 08 09:35:39 EAT 2011

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...

Barcelona's players celebrate next to Manchester United's English forward Wayne Rooney at the end of the UEFA Champions League final football match FC Barcelona vs. Manchester United, on May 28, 2011 at Wembley stadium in London.Barcelona won 3 to 1. AFP PHOTO
Posted Wed Jun 01 16:32:26 EAT 2011

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. ...

Posted Wed Mar 23 09:21:55 EAT 2011

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....

Posted Thu Mar 17 13:39:08 EAT 2011

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...

Musician Musa Juma (left) of Limpopo International band entertains fans during Guinness 250 Celebrations in Kisumu.  Photo/JACOB OWITI
Posted Wed Mar 16 18:33:37 EAT 2011

BLOG: Goodbye my Musa Juma

ESTHER MACHARIA - Musa Juma has joined Omondi Tony and the Limpopo Band is now in in heaven....

Posted Tue Feb 15 16:57:46 EAT 2011

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. ...

Posted Tue Feb 08 13:56:10 EAT 2011

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.  ...

Posted Sat Jan 15 11:42:47 EAT 2011

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....

Posted Wed Jan 12 17:18:58 EAT 2011

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...

FILE | NATION. Parliament buildings: Parliamentary staff should better in their relations with the public.
Posted Wed Jan 12 16:45:52 EAT 2011

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...

Posted Sat Nov 20 12:40:02 EAT 2010

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...

Posted Sat Nov 20 12:40:02 EAT 2010

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...

Posted Sat Nov 13 15:10:32 EAT 2010

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...

Posted Sat Nov 06 12:32:15 EAT 2010

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...

Posted Sat Oct 30 12:42:40 EAT 2010

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...

Posted Sat Oct 23 12:21:27 EAT 2010

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...