The leadership is simply not investing in priority areas. The livestock sector, the main source of livelihood and the economic mainstay of the region remains highly...
Equity is at the heart of the revenue-sharing formula and no one region should benefit at the expense of the other. Kenya as a country will...
Make Isiolo the capital city. Besides being geographically central, the town has space for expansion and that would open up the north to commerce and settlement....
The patriarchy’s continued enforcement of the practice of Female Genital Mutilation has transformed Somali women into the “living dead”.
Being from the Ethiopian side of the border, travelling and getting to know my people on the Kenyan side has brought me back down to earth...
Pastoralists and other marginalized communities need to closely scrutinize the politics and programmes of the election candidates that are after their vote.
The mushrooming of community radio stations and citizen journalism in Northern Kenya provides a far more nuanced and complex view of the lives in Northern Kenya,...
Garret Hardin’s ‘tragedy of the commons’ thesis published in 1968, became a ‘'masterpiece" upon which environmental and development policies were formulated in the 1970s and 1980s....
True justice demands that perpetrators of violence be brought to book and held liable for their actions regardless of their status in society.
There are multiple causes and forms of conflict in Northern Kenya. In most conflicts, women are disproportionately affected. The national and county governments should work with...
The casting of the Pokots as a belligerent community in the media is one of the enduring stereotypes. But this framing is banal as it is...
Relying on aid cannot transform society because poverty is a structural problem. Donor funding merely changes the relationship between the people and their government, increases government...
