July 31

• Kenya: Urban Refugees Regain Access to Aid [press release]

  Danish Refugee Council resumes and expands activities in Nairobi in support of urban refugees. The urban refugee programmes have been on hold until now as the Kenyan Government's... Read more »

July 29

• Kenya: HIV Spread 'By Wife Swapping' - Report

  HIV is being spread by "wife swapping" and infidelity according to a report in Kenya, where most new infections occur among heterosexual couples in stable relationships. Read more »

July 24

• Kenya: Govt Sees More Cash Handouts Ending Hunger for 3 Million

  The Kenyan government hopes to reduce extreme poverty and hunger by giving cash handouts to up to 3.3 million of its poorest people, hit by drought and unemployment, over the next... Read more »

July 18

• Kenya: Boma Project Granted Millions to Educate and Support Women Entrepreneurs [press release]

  The BOMA Project, a U.S.-based nonprofit that trains and mentors women in running small businesses in Northern Kenya, announced a U.S.$1.9 million dollar grant today from the... Read more »

July 17

• Kenya: Men Panic Over Rights for Women in Marriage Bill

  A Marriage Bill which seeks to unify Kenya's various marriage-related laws and customs and strengthen women's rights in marriage was introduced to parliament on Tuesday and caused... Read more »

July 16

• Kenya: Young Farmers Turn to Social Media to Adapt to Climate Change

  Julius Cheruiyot has been a farmer since he was 16 years old. Forced to drop out of school because his family was unable to pay the fees, he went to work on his father's farm in... Read more »

July 15

• Kenya: Adaptation Decision-Making Shifts to Locals

  A new series of pilot projects in Northern Kenya will place greater decision-making powers about climate change adaptation into the hands of community members - a move backers hope... Read more »

• Kenya: Maasai Herders Train As Solar Technicians

  Until recently, the Maasai youth in Kenya's southern region saw only one occupation in their future: cattle keeping. It's what generations of their tribesmen had done before them... Read more »

• Kenya: Maternal Death Rate May Fall Thanks to Free Services for Women

  Kenya's dire maternal death rate may finally fall thanks to the introduction last month of free maternity services for women, with some hospitals reporting a 50 percent increase in... Read more »

July 12

• Kenya: Most Kenyan Midwives Diagnose Correctly but Less Than a Third Treat - Survey

  In Kenya, 82 percent of midwives correctly diagnose their patient's condition but only 28 percent give the full treatment required, the World Bank said on Friday, highlighting the... Read more »

July 08

• Kenya: Nation Taxing Poor While Giving Breaks to Rich Corporates - Aid Agency

  Kenya's government should stop giving tax breaks to multinationals, instead of taxing the food of poor people who can barely afford to eat, campaigners said on Monday. Read more »

• Kenya: The Captain Who Will Land in War Zones

  Security situation in north-eastern Kenya has deteriorated steadily since the Kenyan army entered Somalia almost two years ago. Armed groups have launched sporadic attacks, mostly... Read more »

June 20

• Kenya: Scratch-Card Solar Brings Clean Energy to Kenya's Poor

  At Sibanga market, 10 km (6 miles) outside the town of Kitale in western Kenya, Timothy Nyongesa walks into the Mibawa Suppliers shop to collect a gadget that he hopes will... Read more »

• Kenya: Kenya Looks to Geothermal Energy to Boost Power Supply

  About ten kilometres north of the Kenya's Rift Valley town of Nakuru lies a massive shield volcano with one of the biggest calderas in the world. Standing at about 7,474 feet above... Read more »

• Africa: Towards a Safer Refuge in Dadaab

  The sight of school children huddled around street lights on school nights is now commonplace in Dadaab. This is where most school assignments get done. Oblivious to the evening... Read more »

June 17

• Kenya: Act Alliance Alert - Assistance to New Arrivals At the Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

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• Kenya: Act Alliance Rapid Response Payment - Assistance to New Arrivals At the Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

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June 12

• East Africa: Kenya-Ethiopia Power Deal Brings Hope, Controversy

  Each week, Lucy Wangui, 51, walks from her home, in an isolated hamlet in Kenya's Narok County, to the local shopping centre 15 kilometers away. Read more »

June 10

• Kenya: Scholarships in Dadaab - Educating Somali Refugees Out of Poverty [press release]

  Somali refugees in Dadaab live far from universities and education opportunities. Instead, they end in unemployment or are forced to take on unskilled jobs in the camps to make a... Read more »

• Kenya: MPs to Champion Rural Women's Influence On Climate Policy

  Women are due to get a bigger say in Kenya's climate change policies after female parliamentarians representing its 47 counties joined a group that has been pushing for gender... Read more »

June 03

• Kenya: President's Office Censored Report On Land Grabbing - Commissioners

  Three foreign members of a commission looking into historical injustices in Kenya have said the president's office censored a report to exclude references to irregular land... Read more »

• Kenya: Community Dams Aim to Build Water Security in Arid Kenya

  Before arriving at Katuthia village in lower Eastern Kenya, a visitor travels through parched countryside, with stretches of land sprouting newly sown crops that are already... Read more »

May 28

• Kenya: Kenyan Girls Win Landmark Rape Case Against Police

  Kenyan police must properly investigate and prosecute rape cases, a court has ruled after a landmark case involving 240 child rape victims, some as young as three, which could have... Read more »

May 29

• Kenya: Police Raped, Tortured Refugees in 'Rampage' - Rights Group

  Kenyan police tortured and abused more than 1,000 refugees, asylum seekers and Somali Kenyans in Nairobi in a "10-week rampage" beginning in late 2012, Human Rights Watch (HRW)... Read more »

May 31

• Kenya: Aid Agencies to Vaccinate More Than 1 Million People After Polio Outbreak in Refugee Camp

  An emergency team is working to vaccinate 424,000 people living in the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya after polio was detected, the United Nations said on Friday. Read more »