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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. apnews.com/article/pope-a…

The Kenya Lionesses squad that will be taking on the Noisy neighbours @UgandaRugby All the best ladies!! #RAWC2026 #RAWCPERFORMANCEDIVISON #KenyaRugby #RugbyAfricaAt40

I love this clip of matatu crew running relays at Kitale Bus Park. Hehe. Na baton exchange. Pia tuone split times? Proof of Kenyans’ natural athleticism. Yeah - athletics has an influence on us 🙂 Whoever recorded this - bless you :-).

@RfcKabras The original image size ratios were so much cooler

"Yes, Dukisa changed my life" 🥹😍🙏🏾 #RugbyKe #KabrasSugar #KenyasSweetest #KenyaCupFinal 📸 @dkwere

What’s that three letter word we have now replaced with “innovative domestic financing initiative”

@TheNjoroge 🤣🤣😅

Being a man is so hard. Someone will buy you a boxer and tell the whole world.

Long live the memory of Shujaa Festus Gontebanye Mogae!! It was an absolute pleasure, Your Excellency. Travel well sir. Rest in Power. Our condolences to his family and friends and all our brothers and sisters in Botswana.

Former Kenya Lionesses Head Coach and Nakuru player, Felix 'Ade' Oloo, has sadly passed away💔. Felix 'Ade' Oloo Otieno was a respected Kenyan rugby coach and former player, widely recognized for his contribution to grassroots development and the growth of women’s rugby in Kenya. Commonly known as “Ade” or “Mwalimu,” he built a strong reputation both on and off the field through his leadership and commitment to the sport. Otieno enjoyed a long playing career with Nakuru RFC spanning approximately 15 years (2003–2017). During his time at the club, he was part of successful squads that secured Kenya Cup titles in the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons, as well as winning the Enterprise Cup and other domestic competitions including the Bamburi Super Series. Transitioning into coaching, Otieno took up roles at Nakuru RFC where he handled both the men’s and women’s teams, focusing on rebuilding structures and nurturing young talent. His impact extended to the national stage where he served as head coach of both the Kenya Lionesses 7s and 15s teams. Under his leadership, the Lionesses achieved qualification for the Tokyo Olympics and competed in major tournaments such as the Africa Women’s competitions, the Dubai 7s Invitational, and the Elgon Cup. He is widely credited for building competitive structures despite limited resources. Rest in peace Ade🕊🕊❤️

What madness is this!?!? @WorldAthletics rank Sawe's sub 2-hour marathon as only the 4th best performance in the last year 🙈 and 9th on the Men's WR rankings on the points system. Tell me its broken without telling me it's broken. This is this generations sub 4min mile. #sub2

@adidas Who was wearing the shoes you muppets

Welcome to a new era of fast. The #Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3. Now officially the sub-2-shoe.

@HipposFans Poster by the exceptionally talented guru @AyeKayKe you can also find him on IG instagram.com/Otsimi - the man is legendary

@dkwere @kenyalioness This artwork is straight FIRE The graphic gravity is giving us FOMO More to that, this final is massive - a proper build-up to #RAWC2026 Every #RugbyKE lover needs to be at Goan to witness these queens go at it. For those of us too far… we dey pray for solid live coverage o 🙏

A strong, competitive, respected, Women’s Kenya Cup competition is the path to a successful, sustainable @kenyalioness squad. For the sake of all our Kenya Lionesses our focus this week must be #WomensKenyaCupFinal. We can promote the Rugby Africa Women’s Cup after this weekend.

Sabastian Sawe’s performance yesterday was one for the ages. A literal once-in-a-lifetime accomplishment that will prompt many to ask in years to come: ‘Where were you when Sawe broke 2:00?’ But our newspapers? They failed. A failure that will live forever in editorial infamy.

Sawe made it on @marca and @mundodeportivo 🔥👏👌. Lakini home, newspaper tulisema politics ni bigger than 1:59:30. Anyway, those are editorial choices and decisions.

Woooohoooooo 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 The African Union Commission has officially signed grant agreements with 13 African think tanks — including APHRC — to launch the Africa Think Tank Platform (ATTP), a five-year, $50M initiative backed by the World Bank Group. APHRC will lead one of three consortium (CACEPS), working alongside think tanks from Egypt, Nigeria -@CPED, Mozambique, and Senegal to produce policy-ready research on Africa's most pressing cross-border challenges. At APHRC we are extremely proud to lead one of the inaugural consortia in the ATTP initiative. Read the full story here 👇 aphrc.org/the-african-un…

🥇History made live on the BBC!🥇 The favourite moment of my broadcasting career - Kenya's Sabastian Sawe broke the 'impossible' sub 2 hour barrier at @LondonMarathon. I was live with @MartineBBC on @BBCNews & @BBCWorld talking about Tigst Assefa's record when Sawe flew past!🇰🇪

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

I mourn the passing of Patrick Mukabi, the artist behind the iconic paintings in all Java House wall paintings. As a newbie journalist, my bery first assignment was to cover the story of how Mukabi memorialised the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi. I have followed his work over the years and my best series from his collection was Market Women. Mukabi did a lot of work teaching youngsters to paint. But above all, he immortalised many aspects of Nairobi social life. He is a national treasure. The city of Nairobi owes him a great of gratitude. We need a City Arts Council to recognise such artists Wangui Maina and Dennis Onsarigo.

I covered the FIFA Women’s Series in Kenya, and it was an incredible experience. I am grateful to have met @UsherKomugisha and Hajjat Aisha Nalule while on their duties ,and proud to tell this story that women’s football is the next thing. 📷@dkwere 💐 #FIFASeries #SIBAlerts

@MikeFriday09 @SVNSSeries @OfficialKRU Otoyo ako kadi! Thanks for being the loud voice of reason always. Even if the ivory tower is trying not to listen.

@SVNSSeries Why do the losing Cup Quarter finalists not get the opportunity to play out to secure their league ranking & standing points? - It’s grossly unfair as 1-4 & 9-12 play out for their ranking but not 5-8🤷🏻‍♂️ - Jobs & programs are on the line - Feel for @OfficialKRU Mens 7s