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Mar 18, 2021
1.4 Million People in Kenya Are Facing Starvation: Report
Climate change and COVID-19 have threatened food security for millions of people. Drought in Kenya's Ewaso Ngiro river basin....
Mar 17, 2021
Tanzania politicians flee to Kenya, police arrest four people
By Washington Gikunju & the Citizen Four Tanzanian opposition politicians have fled to Kenya, citing safety concerns, even as President...
Mar 16, 2021
Stability at risk as Somalia and Kenya spat over sea border
A dispute between Kenya and Somalia over an oil- and gas-rich area in the Indian Ocean is unlikely to spark an armed conflict. But it may...
Mar 15, 2021
Kenya ranked 95 in Democracy Index
Kenya has been ranked position 95 globally and number 13 in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Democracy Index 2020 ratings, scoring lower than...
Mar 12, 2021
Kenya aiding in global corporate tax abuse – report
The country has an agreement with the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Mauritius, which are ranked among the top six facilitators of...
Mar 9, 2021
UN warns of growing Covid-19 child brides in Kenya
There are 527,000 child brides in Kenya, and more joined the number last year. A Pokot girl is held by a member of her community after...
Mar 8, 2021
COVID plunging many Kenyans deeper into poverty
Students in Nairobi, Kenya, walk to school after the January reopening of a national school system closed since March 2020. (Simon...
Mar 5, 2021
Kenyan farm workers launch Scottish legal bid against tea giant
Seven farm workers from Kenya are suing one of the world's biggest tea producers for damages in a personal injury court in Scotland. The...
Mar 3, 2021
US urges Kenya to address crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Kenyatta spoke with US President Joe Biden and also discussed the deteriorating humanitarian and human rights crises in Tigray region and...
Feb 23, 2021
Kenya: Protect freedom of expression
Three bulls were grazing in a meadow and were watched by a lion who longed to capture and devour them, but felt that he was no match for...
Feb 19, 2021
Exiled in Kenya, controversial Ugandan activist continues to speak out
Stella Nyanzi, a prominent Ugandan activist, is arrested by police on May 18, 2020, after she organized a protest for more food...
Feb 16, 2021
Kenya: How US$82m oil scandal was planned and executed
The Magh Mela, an annual pilgrimage to Prayagraj, India, which usually attracts over 100 million visitors, is not only the greatest Hindu...
Feb 11, 2021
Camellia reveals £4.6 million settlement over Kenya human rights abuse claims
Leigh Day brought the claims to court in London. (Getty Images) Camellia, the British agriculture and engineering firm hit by allegations...
Feb 10, 2021
Kenya says not meddling in Somalia’s internal affairs
Kenya rejects claims of interference in domestic affairs of Somalia as ‘false and misleading’ Kenya reiterated on Tuesday it is not...
Feb 5, 2021
Kenya’s wins and losses in FGM war as 2022 beckons
PS Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs Safina Kwekwe (right) during the signing of an MOU with with Maasai elders from...
Feb 4, 2021
Ugandan academic cum political activist, Dr Stella Nyanzi, has fled to Nairobi, Kenya
This was confirmed by her lawyer, Prof George Luchiri Wajackoyah, who cited political persecution by President Yoweri Museveni's...
Feb 2, 2021
ICC releases Kenyan lawyer accused of witness tampering
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday conditionally released Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru who is among three Kenyans facing...
Jan 25, 2021
How Kenya’s new personal data protection law could affect researchers
Researchers are now confined to the collection of specific information only directly from individuals. (Getty Images) The risk of...
Jan 19, 2021
Kenya: Nairobi’s new governor rushed through to avoid Ruto-Odinga proxy fight
Nairobi former Governor, previously Senator Mike Sonko in happier times. (REUTERS/Noor Khamis) A city bureaucrat is set to become...
Jan 18, 2021
Hopefully, treatment of journalists in Kenya won’t go the Uganda way
Events in Uganda relating to media and journalist’s treatment during the campaigns, electioneering and voting for the January 14th 2021...
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