3 days agoPandemic created new class of Kenyan poor, World Bank saysPhoto: AP/Patrick Ngugi An additional two million people in Kenya have been pushed into deprivation as the coronavirus pandemic increased...
4 days agoKenya's LGBTQ community faces increased abuse during pandemicKenya has acknowledged that COVID-19 restrictions are fueling cases of gender-based-violence but has been less open on abuses against the...
5 days agoKenya: Police reopen cases of post-2007 polls violenceDuring election violence that marred aftermath of 2007 Kenyan polls, over 1,000 were killed, half a million displaced Kenya on Monday ann...
6 days agoKenyan online cartel is luring girls to orgies, police warnPolice in Kenya are investigating an "online cartel" that targets girls stuck at home because of coronavirus and lures them under false p...
Nov 20Shackling body and mind: The torments of Kenya’s mentally illMany are locked away, few receive proper care Sunday worshippers at the Holy Ghost Coptic Church of Africa, where services often last for...
Nov 19Kenya arrests three health workers over baby theftsKenyan police accuse staff at some public hospitals and children's homes of colluding with traffickers A BBC investigation revealed how b...
Nov 18Kenya’s Paul Gicheru surrenders to the ICC: Coincidence or plan?The surrender of a Kenyan lawyer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague earlier this month has reignited the politics aro...
Nov 17Teenage pregnancies rise in parts of Kenya as lockdown shuts schoolsJackline Bosibori wept when she found out she was pregnant. The 17-year-old’s mother, who is raising six kids alone, collapsed in their o...
Nov 12Exposed: Limits of state and public trust during the Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya Police on patrol in Kakamega County. Credit: Issac Wale. Nation Media Group. As of 9 November 2020, there have been 61,769 confirmed Covi...
Nov 9How Covid-19 has worsened attacks against journalists in KenyaAlmost a decade after the United Nations set aside November 2 as a day to reflect on ending impunity for crimes against journalists, crim...
Nov 2Kenya continues to imprison citizens in inhumane, deplorable conditionsWritten by Patrick Gathara “Arrest them!” Across the globe, this is the popular demand whenever someone is accused of wrongdoing. Demands...
Oct 30Kenya’s constitutional fight reveals elite power strugglesKenya is in the throes of another agonised constitutional debate. Proponents of the new push for amendments argue that the time is right ...
Oct 29Investigation highlights transparency need on US, UK roles in Kenyan counterterrorismThe Daily Maverick, a South African online newspaper, recently published a two-part series by Declassified UK, an online investigative me...
Oct 28US industry lobbying against Kenyan plastic lawsIt has been found that the oil and chemical industries, in the midst of negotiations between the US and Kenya over a bilateral trade deal...
Oct 27Time for UK, US to stop aiding terror against terror in KenyaAn explosive two-part investigation recently revealed how the government is working closely with US and UK intelligence agencies to wage ...
Oct 23Nine weeks of bloodshed: how brutal policing of Kenya's Covid curfew left 15 deadViolent enforcement of lockdown has led to legal action aiming to force police reform and accountability A nervous energy filled downtown...
Oct 21Kenyan efforts to end FGM suffer blow with victims paraded in ‘open defiance’ Kenya has seen a setback in its progress to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) after an open parade in defiance of the government ...
Oct 20From ‘role models’ to sex workers: Kenya’s child labor risesThe teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or how...
Oct 19‘We want justice for these girls’: the Kenyan helpline for victims of gender violenceSomewhere in Kenya, an early morning in July: A woman organizes a once-in-a-lifetime “ceremony” for her 11-year-old niece: The girl’s gen...
Oct 14Kenya’s coffee industry reels under organised theft onslaughtKenya’s famous coffee industry is being targeted by armed gangs who carry out orchestrated, large-scale heists. Coffee farmers report how...
