Siasa Place has called for stronger safeguards against AI-driven political manipulation, urging the government, political parties, technology platforms and electoral stakeholders to act before the 2027 General Election. The youth-led civic-tech organisation made the call following an Anthropic report documenting a Kenya-focused influence operation in which its Claude AI was used to generate political content,
Cancer patients in Kenya are set to benefit from significantly lower treatment costs after the government reached an agreement with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to reduce the prices of selected medicines used in cancer treatment. Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale said the agreement would see the cost of medicines used by cancer patients fall by more