Mkenya Mzalendo, Author at Kenya Monitor

Senate staffer arrested in Al Shabaab plot to bomb Parliament

Police have arrested a Senate employee in connection to an Al Shabaab plot to bomb parliament Police officers have arrested a Senate staffer in connection t...

Mungiki in the eyes of Bensouda – Part 1

ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (right) at a past ICC event at The Hague Natherlands. A pre-trial brief she released in January this year identifies the Mungiki ...

Sauti Sol song Nerea triggers abortion debate

Sauti Sol (www.youtube.com) It is not often that contemporary music triggers serious debate on National TV and on social media like Sauti Sol has done with ...

New fears of Al Shabaab terror attacks in Nairobi

There are growing fears that the Somali terror group Al Shabaab is planning more attacks in Nairobi (Photo/somaliagenda.com) Barely a month after ...

Kenyans Outraged by TV expose Plague for Profit

Last week, we featured the story of Phyllis Omido, an environmental activist who battled against a lead smelting factory and eventually got it shut...

Before we condemn South Africans, let’s remember PEV: Part Two

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) at a camp in Nyandarua. More than 600,000 person were displaced during the 2007 post election violence. The xenophobic atta...

Before we condemn South Africans, let’s remember PEV: Part One

Nelson Mandela who was South Africa's first black President. The ongoing xenophobic attacks in South Africa can be compared to the 2007/08 post election violen...

Kenyan Presidents don’t inherit chairs

A staff of the Public Works department in Nakuru narrates the history of the chairs to the public at a recent public event (Photo: Kioko). Did you know that...

The ‘Joseph factor’ in Kenya’s security docket

Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of Government, Joseph Nkaissery. He shares a name with Inspector General of Police, Joseph Boinet. What is in ...

Egerton V.C announces his departure

The main entrance of Egerton University. Vice Chancellor Prof. James Tuitoek will be leaving office in January next year. The Vice Chancellor of Egerton Unive...

Bizarre leak claims to link Raila, Buhari, Al Shabaab and Boko Haram

A bizarre intelligence report being attributed to the Iranian government claims to link former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Nigeria’s President-Elect Muhamma...

Negative stereotypes are the cancer eating Kenya

A photo of one the Al Shabaab attackers responsible for Thursday's attack on Garissa University College. Religious stereotyping can be used as an element for c...