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October 17
Kenya: Kenya's Mung Bean Legislation Debate Underscores Farmers' Vulnerability
Kenyan farmers have faced a turbulent year, caught between legislative changes and a devastating scandal. While the country's Mung Bean Bill, aiming to regulate the lucrative mung… Read more »
September 02
Kenya: Kenya's Unanswered Questions About Enforced Disappearances
As the world marked International Day of the Disappeared, Kenya grapples with a shadowy and persistent crisis--enforced disappearances. This harrowing violation of human rights has… Read more »
August 15
Kenya: Freedom of Press in Jeopardy With Journalists in Crossfire in Kenyan Protests
In the heart of Nairobi, as tear gas clouded the streets, the line between journalists and protesters blurred in the eyes of Kenyan law enforcement. A wave of anti-government… Read more »
August 07
Kenya: Why Kenya Is Considered a High Climate Risk for Development Banks
Climate change-related extreme weather jeopardizes Kenya's development agenda; even though it contributes very little to global warming, it is marked as a high-risk country by… Read more »
July 31
Kenya: Can Kenya's Gen Z Lead an African Agriculture Revolution?
Kenyan Gen Z recently led a series of historic protests that resulted in Kenya's President rejecting the Finance Bill 2023 and dissolving his cabinet. These protests are inspiring… Read more »
July 23
Kenya: President Ruto Must Stop Threatening Kenyans and Act On Institutional Reforms to Stabilize the Country
The resolution to the ongoing Kenyan crisis that has since morphed into an anti-government movement is not as simplistic as the withdrawal of the punitive Finance Bill 2024 as has… Read more »
Kenya: Kenya's Protests - More Than a Question of Tax
Kenya's President William Ruto has withdrawn the tax-increasing Finance Bill that sparked mass protests. He has sacked his cabinet and the head of the police has resigned. But the… Read more »
July 15
Kenya: From Trauma to Triumph - Kenyan Women's Courageous Battle Against Female Genital Mutilation
In the heart of Empash village, a fragmented community nestled in Suswa, Narok County, some 62 miles northwest of Nairobi, Naomy Kolian's story unfolds like a gripping saga of… Read more »
July 05
Kenya: Kenya's Cash-Strapped, Ambitious Climate Change Goals
Kenya's need for climate finance is great--the country has been battered by climate change-related disasters for years--but as this analysis shows, the arrangements remain opaque,… Read more »
June 27
Kenya: Youth-Led Protests Force Kenyan President's Hand Over Tax Bill
In a historic first, Kenya's youth have mobilized in large-scale protests to demand that the political establishment listen to them. The Finance Bill 2024, which proposed new taxes… Read more »
June 03
Kenya: Biodiversity Meetings in Nairobi End, All Eyes Are Now On COP16
Regions struggling to revise and update their National Biodiversity Plans aligning them with the Global Biodiversity Framework adopted at COP15, will now be given the technical and… Read more »
May 09
Kenya: Dissenting Voices At Nairobi Soil Health Forum Over Increased Fertilizer Use
As the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit convened in Nairobi to review the progress made in terms of increasing fertilizer use in line with the 2006 Abuja Declaration,… Read more »
April 19
Kenya: Portable Ginnery Could Revive Kenya's Ailing Cotton Industry
Kirinyaga University may have just breathed new life into Kenya's ailing cotton industry as varsity dons develop a portable cotton ginnery. Read more »
March 08
Kenya: International Women's Day, 2024 - Inside Women Dominated Seaweed Farms in Kenya's Indian Ocean Waters
Nearly two kilometers into the Indian Ocean from the Mwazaro beach coastline in Lunga Lunga Sub-County, Kwale County, women can be spotted seated in the shallow ocean waters or… Read more »
February 29
Kenya: Air Quality Sensors Boosting Nairobi's Fight Against Air Pollution
Deborah Adhiambo (43) has been battling mild asthma since 2022, a condition she describes as "both a health and economic burden." The mother of three lives within Dandora Estate,… Read more »
February 28
Africa: 'I Haven't Forgotten Where I Came From,' Says Pinto, Incoming Rice Research Institute Chief
Growing up on a small farming station in Holetta (Ethiopia), Yvonne Pinto would accompany her agriculturist father to the farm, where she would spend her time cross-fertilizing… Read more »
February 22
Kenya: Inside Kenya's Seed Control Battle - Why Smallholder Farmers Want to Share Indigenous Seeds
A group of 15 smallholder farmers in Kenya petitioned the country's High Court, seeking to compel the government to review sections of a law that bans the sharing and exchange of… Read more »
Kenya: Coastal Indigenous and Minority Women Driving Kenya's Blue Forest Conservation Efforts
Fish vanished from the sea near Tsunza, a village on Kenya's coast, after several oil spills between 2003 and 2006. The impact of this and the vanishing mangroves badly affected… Read more »
January 26
Kenya: Under the Scorching Sun Kenyan Farmers Find New Ways to Beat Climate Change
Rural Kenyans are forging a path toward a more sustainable future and protecting their lives and livelihoods from climate change through regenerative agriculture, nurturing hope… Read more »
October 31, 2023
Kenya: Women Correct Historical Injustices, Build Climate Resilience Through Cash Pooling
Excluded by inheritance and ignored by big business, women farmers in Kenya are turning to innovative methods to become independent food producers and get the financial backing to… Read more »
October 20, 2023
Africa: To Attain the SDGs, We Must End Female Genital Mutilation
The tips of our fingers have densely packed nerve endings. That is why a miniscule paper cut activates our pain receptors and causes stubborn pain for a day or two. Now consider… Read more »
October 10, 2023
Kenya: Kenyan Scientist Elected Chair of Inter-Governmental Biodiversity Body
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) recently elected David Obura as Chair. The coral reef expert will serve a 3-year term… Read more »
September 01, 2023
Africa: Africa Climate Summit - a Critical Opportunity for Collective Action On Climate Change
As an African, I have seen first-hand the devastating effects of climate change. I have met communities displaced by floods in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. I have spoken to… Read more »
August 28, 2023
Kenya: Kenya's Population Growth Decreases As More Women Embrace Modern Family Planning
According to a family planning brief, more than 370 million women in middle and low-income countries were finally embracing modern contraception to help curb unintended… Read more »
August 15, 2023
Kenya: Cost of Living Protests Met With Police Repression - Accountability Needed
Protests against the high cost of living in Kenya have been met with police violence. Talks are currently underway between government and opposition - but whatever results will… Read more »
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