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Patrick Gathara

Al Jazeera

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In Kenya, not even the cartoonists are safe

Political cartooning in Kenya has never been without its risks. Cartoonists have faced state-engineered dismissal and censorship, lawsuits from...

03.01.2025 90

Al Jazeera

Patrick Gathara

The West, the ICC, and ‘mtu wetu’ in Israel

The arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, issued by the International Criminal...

24.11.2024 10

Al Jazeera

Patrick Gathara

Backers of incumbent accuse US voters of racism, sexism for electing felon

Anger and fear have greeted the return to power of former US strongman, Donald Trump, a corrupt far-white extremist coup plotter who is also a...

08.11.2024 10

Al Jazeera

Patrick Gathara

White-wing politics dominating US election spell trouble for the world

With less than a fortnight to go till presidential elections are held in the United States, leading candidates are making their final appeals to...

26.10.2024 70

Al Jazeera

Patrick Gathara

Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community

Efforts to restore democracy to the United States, a troubled, oil-rich former British colony with a history of political violence, may have...

11.09.2024 30

Al Jazeera

Patrick Gathara

US ruling party focuses on threat from opposition at grand convention

This week the ruling Democratic Party in the oil-rich North American republic of the United States, one of the world’s top banana exporters, held...

23.08.2024 10

Al Jazeera

Patrick Gathara

Ruto’s moment of decision

In Kenyan political mythology, 1982 was the year it all went wrong. In that year, a failed military coup transformed the previously genteel ruler...

13.07.2024 20

Al Jazeera

Patrick Gathara