| MY YEAR | International Assignment: Olive’s Citizen Weekend Wrap

It’s been nothing short of an eventful year for Kenya on the global stage and a telling year for the region. Coming off the high stakes state visit to the US, deployment to Haiti and major non-NATO ally designation in 2024 to the sobering Gen-Z protests, the reverberations were felt long into 2025. Over the next few minutes, I’ll walk you through what a change of administration in the US has meant for Kenya to what Tanzania’s illegitimate elections signify for the region as told through the lens of Citizen Weekend. We would like to warn you that some of the images in this piece could be graphic