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Nov 19, 2020
Kenya arrests three health workers over baby thefts
Kenyan police accuse staff at some public hospitals and children's homes of colluding with traffickers A BBC investigation revealed how...
Nov 18, 2020
Kenya’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...
Nov 17, 2020
Teenage pregnancies rise in parts of Kenya as lockdown shuts schools
Jackline Bosibori wept when she found out she was pregnant. The 17-year-old’s mother, who is raising six kids alone, collapsed in their...
Nov 12, 2020
Exposed: 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...
Nov 9, 2020
How Covid-19 has worsened attacks against journalists in Kenya
Almost a decade after the United Nations set aside November 2 as a day to reflect on ending impunity for crimes against journalists,...
Nov 2, 2020
Kenya continues to imprison citizens in inhumane, deplorable conditions
Written by Patrick Gathara “Arrest them!” Across the globe, this is the popular demand whenever someone is accused of wrongdoing. Demands...
Oct 30, 2020
Kenya’s constitutional fight reveals elite power struggles
Kenya is in the throes of another agonised constitutional debate. Proponents of the new push for amendments argue that the time is right...
Oct 29, 2020
Investigation highlights transparency need on US, UK roles in Kenyan counterterrorism
The Daily Maverick, a South African online newspaper, recently published a two-part series by Declassified UK, an online investigative...
Oct 28, 2020
US industry lobbying against Kenyan plastic laws
It 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 27, 2020
Time for UK, US to stop aiding terror against terror in Kenya
An explosive two-part investigation recently revealed how the government is working closely with US and UK intelligence agencies to wage...
Oct 23, 2020
Nine weeks of bloodshed: how brutal policing of Kenya's Covid curfew left 15 dead
Violent enforcement of lockdown has led to legal action aiming to force police reform and accountability A nervous energy filled downtown...
Oct 21, 2020
Kenyan 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 20, 2020
From ‘role models’ to sex workers: Kenya’s child labor rises
The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or...
Oct 19, 2020
‘We want justice for these girls’: the Kenyan helpline for victims of gender violence
Somewhere 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...
Oct 14, 2020
Kenya’s coffee industry reels under organised theft onslaught
Kenya’s famous coffee industry is being targeted by armed gangs who carry out orchestrated, large-scale heists. Coffee farmers report how...
Oct 13, 2020
‘Rape, beatings and death’ at Kakuzi, the Kenyan farm that helps feed the UK’s avocado habit
Court papers allege guards at a British estate in Kenya that supplies Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Lidl have committed human rights abuses. The...
Oct 12, 2020
Can Kenyan politics ever be non-toxic?
The events the last few weeks are an ominous sign of the type of elections that Kenya may have in 2022. As a country we have been here...
Oct 9, 2020
Kenya’s expensive Chinese-built railway is racking up losses even as loans come due
When Kenya secured a $3.2 billion loan from China in 2014 to construct the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) connecting its capital Nairobi...
Oct 8, 2020
President Kenyatta denies militarizing the country, says KDF efficiency worth emulating
President Uhuru Kenyatta has dismissed claims that he is militarizing the country through deployment of the Kenya Defense Forces in...
Oct 2, 2020
How Kenya courted a constitutional crisis over parliament’s failure to meet gender quotas
Unlike the typical liberal constitution, Kenya’s 2010 constitution is transformative in character. Liberal constitutions primarily seek...
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