Kenya: Nairobi Summit to Redouble Efforts to Improve Reproductive Rights for Women and Girls

More than 6 000 delegates in the population development sector are gathering in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi this week to renew the promise made to girls and women 25 years ago in… Read more »

Kenya: Call to Action As Thousands Breathe New Life to the Cairo Promise At ICPD 25 Summit

Every day 830 women die while giving life. At least 33,000 girls are forced into child marriage with 11,000 girls undergoing female genital mutilation. These are some of the cruel… Read more »

Kenya: The Nairobi Summit Is About the Future of Humanity and Human Prosperity

As we count down the remaining days to the opening of the Nairobi Summit or the International Conference for Population and Development (ICPD), I am confounded by how much humanity… Read more »

Kenya: Human Trafficking - It Came Disguised As the Opportunity of a Lifetime

Six years ago Mary Njambi* received news of a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity far away from her poverty-stricken village situated in the heart of Kiambu County, Central Kenya.… Read more »

Africa: Challenges of Returning Home After Studying Abroad

Graduate students of the London School of Economics and Political Science gathered at Kenya's coast in September 2018, where the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference… Read more »

Africa: Burning Forests for Rain, and Other Climate Catastrophes

The villagers living on the foothills of Mount Kenya have a belief: If they burn the forest, the rains will come. Read more »

Africa: The Nairobi Summit - Towards a Watershed Moment

In 2019 a female scientist created an algorithm that gave the world the first ever images of a black hole. Working with a team of astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and… Read more »

Kenya: Extreme Floods, the Key to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Drylands

Extreme rainfall and heavy flooding, often amplified by climate change, causes devastation among communities. But new research published on Aug. 7 in the scientific journal Nature… Read more »

Africa: Community Action Is a Critical Weapon in the War On Terror

During the egregious Dusit attack, Kenya demonstrated remarkable, resilience, solidarity and stood firm against the terrorists. Read more »

Kenya: Kenya and Ethiopia Cross-Border Initiative - a Move Towards Sustainable Peace

Many years of internecine conflict is being replaced by a new narrative of peace along the Kenya-Ethiopia border. Communities that once fought each other are now dreaming of a… Read more »

Kenya: NHIF Reform Crtical to Affordable Health for All in Kenya

Consider this. One million Kenyans fall into poverty every year due to catastrophic out of pocket health expenditures. Read more »

Kenya: One Computer, 58 Children to 1 Teacher and a Poor Internet Connection

A maths and physical science teacher from an impoverished school in Kenya's Rift Valley, Peter Tabichi, has won the one million dollar Global Teacher Prize, becoming the first… Read more »

Kenya: How One Kenyan Teacher Is Lifting His Students Out of Poverty With Science

Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in Nakuru County, situated in a remote, semi-arid part of Kenya's Rift Valley, could pass for an ordinary secondary school in any part of Africa.… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Marginalised Say Nothing for Us, Without Us

Julia Mutua is a resident of Kalawa ward in the semi-arid Makueni County in Eastern Kenya and a member of a women's farmers group that runs a poultry project. Read more »

Kenya: Acts of Terror Will Not Undermine Our Resolve

On 15 January 2019, terror struck Nairobi's 14 Riverside Drive. Read more »

Kenya: The Adolescent Girl Holds the Key to Kenya's Economic Transformation and Prosperity

Teenage pregnancy in Kenya is a crisis of hope, education and opportunity. Read more »

Kenya: Investors Turn Invasive Water Hyacinth Into Cheap Fuel

Currently 30 square kilometres of Lake Victoria, which stretches to approximately 375 kilometres and links Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, is covered with the evasive water hyacinth… Read more »

Kenya: United Towards Achieving Health for All in Kenya

According to Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, the implementation of UHC is "more a political than an economic challenge". Read more »

Kenya: Blue Fashion Steals the Show At Nairobi Conference

The fashion industry is the second largest polluting industry in the world. Pesticides and insecticides used on crops grown for fabrics together with the chemicals used in the… Read more »

Kenya: Improved Husbandry Practices Boosts Aquaculture in Kenya

Despite the humid late October midday weather in Kisumu County near the shores of Lake Victoria, Jane Kisia is busy walking around her fish ponds feeding her fish. As she… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya Looks to Lead the Way in Developing the Blue Economy's Potential

For many years now, the economic potential of the African continent has been discussed, promoted and hailed by everyone from economists to policymakers to world leaders - and with… Read more »

Kenya: Is the United Nations in Kenya Fit for Purpose?

The United Nations globally is witnessing some of the most ambitious reforms led by the UN Secretary General Mr. Antonio Guterres. Most relevant to us in Kenya is the entire reform… Read more »

Kenya: Women Turning the Tables On Traditional Banking and Land Ownership

It was less than eight months ago that Mary Auma and her three children, from Ahero in Kenya's Nyanza region, were living in a one-room house in an informal settlement. Ahero is… Read more »

East Africa: Winds of Change On Kenya's Northern Borders

Previously characterised by belligerence, based on competition for resources, the border regions of Eastern Africa can sense the blissful wind of peace approaching. Read more »

Kenya: Mobile Phones Bring Health Insurance

Households in developing countries spent $148 billion out-of-pocket for healthcare expenses in 2015, and each year 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty because of the… Read more »