Otiato Guguyu, Author at Orals East Africa

The 2025 International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), hosted by Ghana, underscored Africa’s vital role.

Over 40 million PLHIV through the first World AIDS Day Report by GNP+ are asking for minimum requirement for integrated HIV Services; transformative PLHIV participation, local context definition, recognition of our diversity, comprehensive care - including self-care - resilient systems, stigma-free services,

December 10, 2025

Finance & Markets

Kenya offers to buyback $1 billion Eurobond maturing Feb. 2028

Kenyan government has announced it will return to the Eurobond markets to buy back its outstanding $1 billion Kes129 billion notes due February 2028. According to the offer published in the London Socks market, Kenya is making the buyback, as part of

October 2, 2025

Finance & Markets

Kesonia, the new CBK rate to rule them all

Kenyan banks have been given just two days to review loan interest rates on shilling-denominated debt in line with a new benchmark anchored on the overnight interbank average rate, now renamed the Kenya Shilling Overnight Interbank Average (KESONIA). CBK announced Banks have

August 27, 2025

Economy & Politics

July Outlook: Can Kenya bear the cost of annual insurgence

July 2025 will be a pivotal month for Kenya’s economic trajectory, balancing social stability against fiscal consolidation. The government is facing waves of unrest from the unemployed youth, buldging the ranks of Gen Z protests as well as from civil service over

July 8, 2025

Police control traffic at Ahero during judiciary open day

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The symphony of moving judges during an open day, and rethinking mobile courts

I am told that a funeral at Ahero, along Kisumu Nairobi highway is enough to create a gridlock on both sides of Nyando River stretching miles along the rice farms; a march by Senior Principal Magistrate Lillian Kiniale of the Nyando Law

June 18, 2025

Long Read·Videos

Maseno University and Dunga Fisherfolk partner to curate new knowledge

For my Maseno University fourth year media project, we shot a documentary at Dunga Beach, across a raggedy pier, onto the cheapest motor boat for a short detour into the jitters of the lake and back to shore where we gathered the

May 27, 2025

Health & Lifestyle

Born on the lake, the difference a boat makes for island mothers

Out of 37 documented referrals, the CBO offered emergency referral services to 15 obstetrics cases and 6 medical cases from facilities in the Sub County in the year 2023. All the obstetric cases were successfully handed over alive in Mbita Sub County

May 14, 2025

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The cement and steel tariffs that had Guru singing Kanu’s a hundred years

In 2024 cement consumption decreased by 7.2 per cent to 8,537.0 thousand metric tonnes, over the same period, while private employment in the sector registered a downward trend, decreasing from 226.3 thousand in 2023 to 223.4 thousand employees in 2024, KNBS

May 13, 2025

Long Read

The Gupta-like capture of Kenya’s steel and cement sector, that has everyone speaking Guru

My steel business has been affected; we can’t get scrap metal. If I were close to the president, would I be suffering as I am?

May 13, 2025

Finance & Markets

Sokomoko Kibuye, the stink of toilet politics behind cholera shutdown

As the state attempts to dismantle this powerful woman it created out of its own inefficiency, it faces its inconsistencies in its justifications, and harms the consumer who benefits from the cut-throat competition of rival Kibuye traders that had made it the

May 7, 2025

Otiato Guguyu

The 2025 International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), hosted by Ghana, underscored Africa’s vital role.

Kenya offers to buyback $1 billion Eurobond maturing Feb. 2028

Kesonia, the new CBK rate to rule them all

July Outlook: Can Kenya bear the cost of annual insurgence

The symphony of moving judges during an open day, and rethinking mobile courts

Maseno University and Dunga Fisherfolk partner to curate new knowledge

Born on the lake, the difference a boat makes for island mothers

The cement and steel tariffs that had Guru singing Kanu’s a hundred years

The Gupta-like capture of Kenya’s steel and cement sector, that has everyone speaking Guru

Sokomoko Kibuye, the stink of toilet politics behind cholera shutdown

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