15 October 2025, Nairobi, Kenya: Amnesty International Kenya expresses its condolences following the passing of Raila Amolo Odinga, former Prime Minister of Kenya, and a former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience. Mr. Odinga died this morning in India, at the age of 80, following a cardiac arrest while undergoing treatment. 

With the resumption of continuous voter registration on 29 September, seven by-elections set for 27 November, the scramble for the next generation of honest leaders is on. As Kaggia hits the stage later next week, one wonders what Bildad Mwaganu Kaggia would make of the Kenya he loved and fought for.

Nairobi, 25th June 2024. The Police Reforms Working Group Kenya (PRWG-K) unequivocally condemns the recent wave of abductions of citizens suspected of involvement in the #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests. These 12 abductions, which occurred over the last five days and intensified last night, are a gross violation of human rights and amount to arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearance as prohibited under Article 29 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010.

Happy Madaraka Day, all. First celebrated on 1 June 1963, the date Kenyans took back internal self-rule from British colonialism, the day finds its most significance in 2024 by asking how truly free we are all.

By Irũngũ Houghton

Professor Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo’s passing away on 30 June 2023 could not have been more different than her discreet departure from Kenya in 1982. A month-long of remembrance activities remind us that our courage to stand up for a just nation is probably all that really matters.

25th April 2018