The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they are carried out secretly or via proxy armies. These operations have not been...
The rigid distinction between “the tolerant secularist” versus the “barbaric religious fundamentalist” in today’s discourse on the global War on Terror has been employed to justify...
Have Kenya’s close ties with its “Man in Somalia”, Ahmed Madobe, created a rift between Mogadishu and Nairobi? RASNA WARAH explores the precarious relationship between the...
IBRAHIM MAGARA argues that instead of exploring opportunities to heal wounds, and mending ties in pursuit of the national interest, specifically national security, the Kenyan state...
On security, stop and frisk in Nairobi, from an article written by Constant Cap.
The sound of the gun was so loud that we thought he had shot at us from inside the building, perhaps from the ground floor through...
After the Garissa massacre, universities became like military installations. Private security firms were deployed to man the gates and the buildings within universities. Non-students must produce...
Rather than destroying the colonial system, what Kenyan leaders desired at independence was to replace the coloniser. So they saw no need to reform the police...
In other countries, it is understood that the intention of terrorists is to make crowded spaces “empty” – to terrorise the public into retreating inwards in...
I find it humorous that the guards at some buildings never search my pockets when I have a bag. On the other hand, they are very...
