July 25

• Kenya: Kenyan Spring Failing to Blossom

  Kenyan police are said to be investigating the rise of a group dubbed the March 4th Movement (M4M), which aims to make Kenya ungovernable by recruiting youths to take part in... Read more »

July 15

• Kenya: Smallholder Farmers Vulnerable to Climate Change

  With the country's food security and farmers' livelihoods at risk from climate change, Kenya has divergent policy options. One is reliant on deploying new technologies as well as... Read more »

July 09

• Kenya: Mothers Shun Free Maternal Care

  It has been a month since the Kenyan government waived the maternity fee at public health facilities, but Millicent Awino is still one of the many expectant mothers in favour of a... Read more »

June 14

• Kenya: Citizens Mobilise Against Taxing the Poor

  On a side street in Nairobi's bustling neighbourhood of Shauri Moyo, Faisal Ngila shouts to street vendors, motorbike taxi drivers and pedestrians. "Do you know taxes are... Read more »

June 13

• Kenya: Girls Take Charge in the Fight to End Female Genital Mutilation

  Some girls among the Pokot community in western Kenya are bravely defying what is considered cultural and traditional by refusing to be circumcised. More and more mothers, fathers... Read more »

June 11

• Kenya: The Girl Who Couldn't Herd Goats Now Saves Lives [analysis]

  When she was nine years old, Jane Meriwas, a Samburu from the Kipsing Plains in Kenya's Rift Valley region, was considered of no use by her father. After all, nine of his goats had... Read more »

June 10

• Kenya: Flower Farms No Bed of Roses

  Catherine Mumbi knows the difficulties of working in Kenya's flower sector. She was fired as a casual worker at a flower farm after taking time off to recover from complications of... Read more »

May 22

• Kenya: Growing Peas and Greens to Maximise Water Usage

  Amid warnings that Kenya's agricultural water use is surpassing sustainable levels and adversely affecting food security, biodiversity researchers say that agrobiodiversity should... Read more »

May 09

• Kenya: The Challenge of Being a Maasai Woman

  The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Tanzania has long been a beacon of traditional culture to many Africans - and for Westerners on safari through Maasai Mara, Samburu or Amboseli, a... Read more »

• Kenya: Women to Break Glass Ceiling in Cabinet

  Kenya's nominees for cabinet secretary positions, who include an unprecedented number of women - six out of 18 - will undergo a gruelling public vetting process by the... Read more »

April 16

• Kenya: The Road to Fulfilling Election Promises

  Kenya's newly sworn-in President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta may be faced with a number of challenges, including an impending International Criminal Court case and a slow economy. But he... Read more »

April 11

• Kenya: Bringing Kenya's Government to the People

  Like many Kenyans, Eunice Kemboi arrived at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi on Tuesday Apr. 9 to witness the transition of power as Uhuru Kenyatta, an International... Read more »

March 10

• Kenya: Locals Downplay Diplomatic Implications of Kenyatta's Presidency

  Kenyans may have elected as president a man wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, but political analysts here say that Uhuru Kenyatta's presidency will not... Read more »

March 08

• Kenya: 'A Pastoralist Woman Is Like a Working Machine' [interview]

  "In some communities, you can't talk about violence against women," says Agnes Leina, executive director of Il'laramatak Community Concerns (ICC), a group that promotes the human... Read more »

March 04

• Kenya: Millions Vote in Historic Election

  On Monday, Mar. 4, Betty Amollo was one of the millions of Kenyans who turned out in large numbers to cast her ballot in the country's first general election since the 2007... Read more »

February 27

• Kenya: Electoral Opinion Polling Marred By Suspicion

  When Kenya's only female presidential candidate, Martha Karua, dismissed electoral opinion pollsters who claimed that she stood a mere one percent chance of being elected to... Read more »

February 25

• Kenya: Power Sharing a 'Dangerous Concept'

  Days ahead of Kenya's general elections, the country's former deputy Minister of Information Koigi Wamwere has slammed calls for power-sharing among minority ethnic groups in the... Read more »

February 19

• Kenya: Media Magnifies Hate Speech - Again

  With Kenyans set to go to the polls in just over two weeks, on Mar. 4, civil society has been closely monitoring the media's coverage of the political campaigns in this East... Read more »

February 06

• Kenya: Men Turning the Tide Against Female Genital Mutilation

  For the Samburu community in northern Kenya it was bad enough that Julius Lekupe had not sired a son - it was even worse that his eldest daughter refused to be "cut". Read more »

January 25

• Kenya: Women Navigate Political Minefield in Kenya

  Few women in Kenya harbour illusions of entering politics. Blatant discrimination, threats and intimidations, an uneven playing field and a largely unsympathetic public have turned... Read more »

January 10

• Kenya: Slum Dwellers Say 'No' to Blood Money

  With less than two months before Kenyans head to the polls for what is shaping up to be the most competitive and polarised general election in the country's history, many fear that... Read more »

December 26, 2012

• Kenya: Kenya's Growing Luxury Housing Market Not for Locals

  Despite the development boom in state-of-the-art luxury homes in Kenya, the country's upper class has fallen on hard times and can no longer afford them, according to economic... Read more »

December 21, 2012

• Kenya: The Race for a Peaceful Election

  Runners Hosea Nailel and Julius Muriuki, who are from Kenya's rival ethnic Kalenjin and Kikuyu communities respectively, met during a half marathon when they broke away from the... Read more »

December 14, 2012

• Kenya: Court Rules Against Gender Quota in 2013 Parliament

  Kenya's rights activists are furious that the country's highest court "violated" women's constitutional rights by ruling against the implementation of a gender quota in parliament... Read more »

December 01, 2012

• Kenya: The Economic Cost of Kenya's Insecurity

  The wave of insecurity that has hit Kenya in the last few months is causing severe damage to the country's recovering economy, local economists have warned. Read more »