January 22
Kenya: Kenyan Health Workers On Alert Over Us Funding for HIV/Aids Fight
What's the context? Kenya has made big strides against HIV/AIDS thanks to the PEPFAR programme, which was renewed for less time than usual last year Read more »
Kenya: Kenyan Health Workers On Alert Over U.S. Funding for HIV/Aids Fight
When Minne Gachau's husband died from AIDS-related complications in 2006, she was still in denial about being HIV-positive herself - too scared to confide in friends and relatives… Read more »
October 16, 2023
Kenya: Rejected By Banks, Kenyan LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurs Turn to Loan Sharks
Mary Akinyi, an intersex woman from the city of Mombasa, ended up borrowing money from a loan shark after being turned down for bank credit - a situation faced by many Kenyan… Read more »
October 10, 2023
Kenya: Ruling By Kenya's Supreme Court Buoys LGBTQ+ Community
Ten months since a Supreme Court win, LGBTQ+ Kenyans say they feel more emboldened to fight for their rights and report hate crime - even as they face protests and a legislative… Read more »
March 14, 2023
Kenya: LGBTQ+ Kenyans and Ugandans Hide From Wave of Homophobic Abuse
LGBTQ+ Kenyans say they are living in fear after a pro-gay court ruling triggered an outpouring of abuse and death threats, while an anti-gay bill in neighbouring Uganda has stoked… Read more »
August 17, 2022
East Africa: The Situation As a Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee in Kenya Is As Terrible As You Can Imagine
An LGBTQ+ Ugandan refugee now living in Kenya writes of the challenges of trying to find a better life. Read more »
August 15, 2022
Kenya: Drought-Hit Kenyan Herders Save Wildlife - and Their Livelihoods #AfricaClimateHope
As drought and farming shrink natural habitats, wild animals are raiding villages for food. By protecting land for wildlife, conservancies save crops and cattle, too Read more »
Kenya: Lesbian Footballers Fight for the Right to Play
LGBTQ+ stars like Megan Rapinoe are lighting up women's football. But in Kenya, lesbian players face stigma and threats. Read more »
August 08, 2022
Kenya: Youth Help Communities Prepare for Disaster #AfricaClimateCrisis
Young volunteers in the east African nation are spreading the word about extreme weather such as drought as climate change worsens Read more »
August 05, 2022
Kenya: Can Kenya's Youngest MP Candidate Take the Climate Fight to Power?
As Kenya's election nears, 22-year-old Anita Soina pledges to push climate action with the urgency she says is missing at the top Read more »
July 22, 2022
Africa: Inflation Triggers Chaos - Will Tunisia and Kenya Be Next?
Soaring living costs are triggering protests worldwide. After Sri Lanka, which countries might be next? Read more »
July 20, 2022
Kenya: How 'Adopting' Trees Helps Boost Forests and Incomes
The carbon-curbing scheme goes beyond traditional planting projects by getting sponsors to pay to keep trees alive until they mature Read more »
July 18, 2022
Kenya: Firewood and No Meat - Cost-of-Living Crisis Bites
The inflation diaries: As Kenyans gear up for an Aug. 9 election, rising food and fuel prices have become a major campaign issue Read more »
July 14, 2022
Kenya: Ahead of Kenya Elections, Women Politicians Face More Online Abuse
When Kenyan politician Esther Passaris posted a loving tribute to her late father on Twitter, trolls responded with a barrage of abuse over an accompanying "sexualised" photograph… Read more »
June 27, 2022
Kenya: Online Disinformation Stokes Tensions As Elections Near - Report
Platforms like TikTok, Facebook and Twitter are failing to effectively police abusive content ahead of Kenya's high-stakes election, warn digital rights groups Read more »
May 04, 2022
Kenya: How Charging for Wasted Water Helps More Farmers Get a Fair Share
A project to install irrigation meters has encouraged upstream farmers to use only what they need, leaving more for those downstream Read more »
April 09, 2019
Kenya: Righting Colonial-Era Wrongs in Land Rights
The continued dominance of colonial-imposed laws over pre-existing customary legal systems, has been the bane of land rights disputes involving indigenous peoples across the globe… Read more »
July 03, 2018
Kenya: With Refrigerated ATMs, Camel Milk Business Thrives
Halima Sheikh Ali is the proud owner of one of the few ATMs in Wajir town in northeast Kenya. But rather than doling out shilling notes, it dispenses something tastier: a fresh… Read more »
February 07, 2017
Kenya: Kenya's Traders Battle Food Waste With a New Ally - Camels
A herd of camels have become a low-carbon food waste recycling system in a Nairobi market - and they produce milk Read more »
December 11, 2014
Africa: Protecting Mangroves Can Lower Disaster Risks, Offer Cash - Experts
Better protecting the world's fast-disappearing mangroves could have big economic, social and environmental benefits, experts said at the U.N. climate talks in Lima this week. Read more »