Dolly Parton’s philanthropy was not simply about writing cheques. She created programmes designed to continue helping people for generations.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/standard-entertainment/article/2001556389/beyond-music-the-many-lives-of-dolly-parton

Human rights defenders have challenged Kenyans to use the 2027 General Election to elect leaders committed to implementing the 2010 Constitution, accusing the current political leadership of undermining the very document whose 16th anniversary the country marked on August 27.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001556384/activists-urge-kenyans-to-vote-out-leaders-undermining-the-constitution

Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah wants the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) to provide details concerning the procurement, contracting and printing of national examination material for this year.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/politics/article/2001556381/okiya-omtatah-asks-knec-to-provide-details-on-procurement-of-examination-materials

Sixteen years after Kenya promulgated the 2010 Constitution, lawyers, faith leaders and professionals have challenged Kenyans to move beyond celebrating the country’s supreme law and take an active role in protecting, implementing and holding institutions accountable to it.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/politics/article/2001556385/katiba-at-16-kenyans-challenged-to-stop-celebrating-and-start-defending-the-constitution

Uproar has greeted the affordable housing programme in Mukuru slums in Nairobi after some of buyers were informed that the units that had been paying had been sold out.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/real-estate/article/2001556380/mukuru-residents-up-in-arms-over-sold-out-affordable-housing-units

Billions of shillings will be spent to clothe police officers in a new gab eight years after they got a new uniform. Whereas opinion is split on the National Police Service's priorities, a look at the company supplying the uniform and the amounts involved points to deep-seated interests.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001556376/new-uniform-no-reforms-irony-of-misplaced-priority-for-service-plagued-by-corruption-and-brutality

When visitors trooped to Boni Khalwale’s expansive homestead in Malinya village, Ikolomani of Kakamega County, to mourn his late wife Gloria, they got the rare glimpse at the Senator’s private life away from the hard-tackling politics.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001556397/doctor-love-the-complex-polygamy-structure-that-senator-khalwale-runs

President William Ruto says use of excessive force and abuse of authority by police betrays constitution, dishonors police uniform and weakens National Police Service.

President Ruto asks police to take firm, lawful and impartial action against goons, organisers and financiers of the violence, says politically sponsored violence has no place in Kenya.

Health Ministry activates multi-sector preparedness plan to prevent, detect and respond to flood-related health emergencies, including water- and food-borne diseases ahead of El Nino rains.

The power imbalance can make rejecting unwanted advances costly, particularly when the person making them is an organiser, producer or someone capable of opening doors.

“If you say no, they will not invite you to these events, to performance spaces, to influential spaces,” Sumaya says.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/crime-and-justice/article/2001556405/of-sexual-harassment-and-financial-insecurity-the-dirty-price-of-creative-industry

When personal spirits go rogue: Manoeuvres of night runners of Homa Bay

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/nyanza/article/2001556409/when-personal-spirits-go-rogue-manoeuvres-of-night-runners-of-homa-bay