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Kenyan podcasting has reached a critical tipping point in audience reach, engagement and visibility, and in doing so, it is reshaping the country’s media landscape, as Odipo Dev explains. On February 22, 2025 the Mic Cheque Podcast…
Kenya’s chief justice, Martha Koome, announced a change of strategy in March 2025 to fight corruption in the judiciary. The country’s courts are some of the hotspots of corrupt practices, from bribery of judges to obstruction of justice.…
By Mkhululi Chimoio Zimbabwe’s political discourse and conversations about the state of governance in the country have come under attack, and the faith of the public in mainstream media has waned as a result of information disorder –…
Across East Africa, climate change is no longer a distant threat, but a daily crisis reshaping lives. From the rising waters of Lake Tanganyika swallowing farmland in Burundi to unpredictable rainfall devastating crops in Rwanda and…
Africa Uncensored is excited to announce that we have joined the SafeBox Network, a global initiative established by Forbidden Stories to protect and continue the work of journalists facing threats due to their investigative reporting.…
By Nelly Madegwa As of August 2024, 13.6 million Kenyans were facing insufficient access to food, marking a troubling rise of 640,000 people in just three months, although this is slightly lower than the peak a month earlier. This food…
Iconic French brand, Chanel, which sought to purchase organic, environmentally responsible silk from China. However, the luxury brand intentionally engaged suppliers whose environmental practices were rated as very poor by an audit…
The promoters and financiers of the Singrobo dam, built by French construction giant Eiffage, had promised that the project would not harm the environment. However, the project will destroy 618 hectares of forest and harm endangered…
Despite promises, mines financed by French banks and a World Bank subsidiary are ravaging the environment in Guinea. This greenwashing operation has made the fortune of the French firm Biotope, which advises both the government and the…
Already contested for its impact on the climate and because of the exactions committed on-site, the Mozambique LNG project will also negatively impact biodiversity, despite TotalEnergies’ promises. The third article of our GreenFakes…
Confidential documents written by TotalEnergies’ auditing firms reveal the inadequacy of the Group’s actions to limit the damage caused by its Tilenga oil megaproject, in an area of exceptional biodiversity. Elephants, lions and hippos…
Cover image: Sébastien Calvet / Mediapart GreenFakes, an investigation into documents obtained by Mediapart and Africa Uncensored, shows how multinationals, such as TotalEnergies and construction giant Eiffage, obtain permits to implement…
By Samira Sawlani In her 2014 novel Dust, Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owour writes “After Mboya, Kenya’s official languages: English, Kiswahili and Silence. There was also memory.” “Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor once said that Kenya has 3…
By Eric Mugendi and Thomas Mukhwana Kenya has a strong tradition of investigative journalism. Freedom of expression is enshrined in Article 33 and freedom of the media in Article 34 of the Constitution of Kenya (2010). However, the Media…
If you’ve seen a massive protest in Nairobi over the last 12 few months, chances are it has been about either #RejectFinanceBill or #StopKillingWomen. A worrying number of women – mothers, daughters, friends and wives – have lost their…
Press Release Jan. 24, 2025 NAIROBI, Kenya — The Silencing Women Project, a groundbreaking initiative by Odipo Dev and Africa Uncensored, documenting femicide in Kenya, will release its second report on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. This release…
Even as the government sets out ambitious goals in its annual budget, pending bills from suppliers, low absorption rates and poor financial management compound the challenges faced by Kenyans looking to access essential public services. We…
In Kenya, the weight of prejudice manifests in many forms. From Peninah Kilunja, a 60-year-old seamstress in Makueni, who battles societal rejection due to albinism, to Mohammed Malicha in Mathare, who faces profiling for his Muslim name…
When local diver Charles Wambua agreed to help a woman who claimed she’d had a vision of her missing sister, he had no idea how many bodies he would uncover from the depths of the #Kware dumpsite. What followed was a chilling series of…
Boni Forest, located in Lamu County along the Kenya-Somalia border, has become synonymous with the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, but the Boni people, also known as the Aweer, call it home. Due to the high level of insecurity in the…
By Odipo Dev To understand the state of digital news consumption in Kenya, Odipo Dev systematically collected metadata from over 28,000 posts across the Facebook and Instagram pages of 31 English-speaking and vernacular news outlets in…
Becoming a parent can be a beautiful experience for those who choose it. While parenthood is socially accepted for most heterosexual couples, queer Kenyans face a much more difficult path. Their desire to start a family is often met with…
Public spending habits in Kenya reveal a lot about the priorities of the national government, starting with President Ruto, whose salary is twenty times higher than what the average Kenyan earns. There is evidence that extravagance and…
It’s two years since Kenyan president William Ruto, in what seemed like a political gamble, rolled out a government-run microcredit scheme popularised as the Hustler Fund. Worth 50 billion shillings (US$409 million) a year over a five-year…
