December 16, 2025
Kenya: Mt. Kenya Glaciers to Vanish By 2030 - Environmentalist Lewis Pugh
What's the context? Endurance athlete and environmentalist Lewis Pugh said witnessing the Lewis Glacier on Mount Kenya was a "shocking sight". Read more »
December 10, 2025
Kenya: After a Year of Big Cuts, Where Does U.S. Aid Stand Going Into 2026?
What's the context? U.S. foreign aid more than halved in 2025, leaving millions at risk of losing their lives to malaria, malnutrition and HIV. Read more »
October 28, 2025
Kenya: Kenyan LGBTQ+ Safe Houses 'Overwhelmed' As Cuts Hit Refugee Camps
What's the context? Nairobi's queer safe houses are pushed to the brink as LGBTQ+ refugees flee hunger in Kakuma camp hit by aid cuts. Read more »
September 03, 2025
Kenya: Sex for Fish - U.S. Aid Cuts Revive Risky Behaviour in Kenya
What's the context? Every dollar of lost aid pushes a girl into risky sex and denies a gay man his HIV meds - Kenyan clinician. Read more »
August 07, 2025
Africa: Courts Push Back On Meta's Legal Strategy
What we have concluded about Meta's legal strategy following our cases against the tech giant. Read more »
June 25, 2025
Kenya: Kenya's Digital Crackdown Having 'Chilling' Effect On Rights
What's the context? A year after Gen Z protests, rights group Access Now calls for repeal of Kenya's cybercrimes law as online crackdown intensifies. Read more »
June 26, 2025
Kenya: Kenya's International Justice Mission Says Police Must Be Held to Account for Killings
We need more than hashtags. We must swiftly hold police officers to account and conduct a radical surgery of the police system. Read more »
June 12, 2025
Kenya: 'Dignity for All Who Bleed' - Trans, Non-Binary Kenyans Face Menstruation Stigma
What's the context? Kenyan trans and non-binary people fear buying sanitary pads, but there are signs of change. Read more »
May 31, 2025
Kenya: In Kenyan Refugee Camp, U.S. Aid Cuts Mean No Period Pads, No School
What's the context? Girls in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp are particularly hard hit by U.S. aid cuts as period supplies run out, food is cut. Read more »
May 23, 2025
Kenya: Trans Refugees Fear Abuse, Death As Kenya Plans to Integrate Camps
What's the context? Some trans refugees say the Kenyan government's Shirika plan to integrate the camps into society puts them in even greater danger. Read more »
April 29, 2025
Kenya: LGBTQ+ Refugees Say Kenya's Reform Plan Risks Leaving Them Out
What's the context? Kenya plans to turn the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps into open cities. But LGBTQ+ refugees say their needs are being ignored. 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 »











