Kenya: Kenya's Sex Workers Have Solutions to Their Problems, but International NGOs Aren't Hearing Them

In Kenya, rights organisations run by sex workers have gone into numerous partnerships with international organisations over the past decade. In recent research, I set out to… Read more »

Kenya: Healthcare Workers Abuse a Third of Young Mums From Informal Settlements - Study

Adolescent pregnancy is a global public health concern: in 2022, about 13% of girls and young women gave birth before the age of 18. Read more »

Kenya: Kenyan Universities Are Very Short of Professors - Why It Matters and What to Do About It

A Kenyan vice-chancellor recently went public about the scarcity of university professors. There are fewer than 1,000 professors for the country's 68 universities and 562,925… Read more »

Kenya: Should Kenya Abolish All School Exams? Expert Sets Out Five Reasons Why They're Still Useful

The role of examinations in Kenyan schools is under scrutiny. This is because there is a lot that is wrong with the country's examinations, a situation that threatens to derail… Read more »

Africa: Urban Kenyans Mistrust Police Even More Than Rural Residents Do - Study Sets Out Why It Matters

Across the African continent - from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa - widespread protests have taken place to demand police reform in the wake of police misconduct and brutality.… Read more »

East Africa: What's East Africa's Position On the Israel-Hamas War? an Expert Unpacks the Reactions of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

The reactions of some east African countries to the ongoing conflict in Gaza have been less dramatic than South Africa's. South Africa's parliament has passed a resolution calling… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya At 60 - The Shameful Truth About British Colonial Abuse and How It Was Covered Up

It is fairly well known that the lives of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were affected by terrible acts of violence under the British colonial administration. The British… Read more »

Kenya: Humiliation and Violence in Kenya's Colonial Days - When Old Men Were Called 'Boy' and Africans Were Publicly Beaten

When King Charles visited Kenya in November 2023, many Kenyans renewed their demands for an official apology for atrocities committed by the British government during the colonial… Read more »

Kenya: Mohamed Amin Was a Famous Kenyan Photojournalist - There's Much More to His Work Than Images of Tragedy

Kenyan photojournalist Mohamed Amin (1943-1996) rose to fame for documenting the 1984 famine in neighbouring Ethiopia with powerful images of the tragedy. He also captured the… Read more »

Kenya: If Kenya Wants to Help Haiti, It Should Push for Colonial Reparations Not Send in the Police

As the security situation in Haiti deteriorates, Kenya has offered to lead a new sort of UN mission to the country from 2024. In early October, the UN Security Council authorised a… Read more »

Kenya: How to Reverse Kenya's Stock Market Losses

Kenya's stock market recently suffered steep losses, making it the worst performing globally. The weak performance has persisted: the Nairobi Securities Exchange 20-share index… Read more »

Kenya: William Ruto's First Year - He Promised to Make Life Easier for Kenyans, but Things Got Worse

It's more than a year since President William Ruto was sworn into office as Kenya's fifth president. He assumed power at a time when Kenya was beset by rising food and fuel prices,… Read more »

Africa: Visa-Free Travel for Africans - Why Kenya and Rwanda Have Taken a Step in the Right Direction

President William Ruto of Kenya recently announced that Kenya's borders would be open to visitors from the entirety of Africa, with no visas required, by the end of 2023. He said Read more »

Kenya: British King Acknowledges Colonial Atrocities in Kenya - Here's What Could Happen Next

On his official visit to Kenya, King Charles III acknowledged Britain's colonial era "wrongdoings". He also paid tribute to Kenyan soldiers who had participated in the first and… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Courts Were Under Political Pressure - How a Constitutional Reform Empowered Judges

Changes to Kenya's constitution in 2010 on the independence of the judiciary created room for judges to act as guardians of the electoral process. Read more »

Kenya: King Charles in Kenya - Despite Past Tensions, the Visit Is a Sign of a Strong Relationship With Britain

King Charles' visit to Kenya this week is the British monarch's first to a Commonwealth nation since his coronation in September 2022. The visit comes during the country's 60th… Read more »

Kenya: Power Sector Is a Shining Example, the Big Hurdles Are Household and Transport Emissions

Kenya's ambition is to reduce carbon emissions by one-third by 2030, relative to the business-as-usual scenario of 143 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. It also seeks to… Read more »

Kenya: Tapeworm Is Spreading in Kenya - Demand for Meat Brings Parasite to New Areas

Echinococcus granulosus, a type of tapeworm, is a harmful parasite that affects 1 million people worldwide. Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Cost of Living Crisis - Expert Unpacks What's Driving It and What Should Be Done

Kenyans are grappling with the high cost of living. Policy analyst Adan Shibia led a technical team that prepared a recent report on the state of Kenya's economy. We asked him to… Read more »

Kenya: Marathon Under 2 Hours Is Closer Than Ever - Scientist Shows How Kenya's Kiptum Tests Human Limits

War in the Middle East plunged humanity to new lows on Sunday 8 October 2023 that have gripped international attention since. If that were not the case, the world would likely be… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's New Urban School Meal Plan Is Ambitious - It Could Offer Lessons for Scaling Up

More than 250,000 children in public primary schools in Nairobi will receive regular subsidised school meals provided by the county government. The Dishi Na County programme is… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya - Ongata Rongai Boom Town Destroyed Two Vital Rivers - New Study Flags a Major Health Risk

Over the past 10 years, Ongata Rongai, a satellite town on the edge of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, has experienced uncontrolled development and exponential population growth. Because… Read more »

Kenya: Kenyans Don't Trust the Courts - the Main Factors Behind This Trend

The international reputation of the Kenyan judiciary is running high following a raft of judicial reforms brought on by the 2010 constitution. The reforms, displays of judicial… Read more »

Kenya: Faith Kipyegon Lifts Gold - From Walking to School in Rural Kenya to Setting World Athletics Alight

All eyes are on Faith Kipyegon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. That's because the Kenyan 1,500 metre and 5,000 metre star broke three world records… Read more »

Kenya: Faith Kipyegon - From Walking to School in Rural Kenya to Setting World Athletics Alight

All eyes are on Faith Kipyegon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. That's because the Kenyan 1,500 metre and 5,000 metre star broke three world records… Read more »