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, by KIMEU Caroline
I remember Kenya’s June 25 protests like they were yesterday. The energy on the streets of Nairobi was frenetic, filled with the sound of whistles, motorcycle honks, vuvuzelas (long horns used to cheer in soccer games) and loud blasts of teargas.
“We are tired,” chanted the thousands of (…)
, by van der WALT Lucien
Zarina Patel, champion of the workers and women, passed away on 25 April 2024 after a long illness, aged 88. Author, artist, editor, and stalwart of popular movements, she is widely mourned. Her political life, and her research, provide a unique window into the often-forgotten story of labour (…)
, by CHUKUNZIRA Angela
Angela Chukunzira writes about a protest movement in Kenya that has changed the country. The current regime has constantly bowed to western imperialism and the Finance Bill was an effort to offset Kenya’s debt to the Bretton Woods Institutions by imposing heavy taxation and economic hardships on (…)
, by PATTERSON Zachary
A new chapter in Kenya’s history is being written as young people of Gen-Z express their discontent, undergo political awakening, and collectively protest for a life free of poverty and humiliation. In their messages and actions, Gen-Z protesters have made it clear that their demands for change (…)
Supreme court rules for freedom of association but landmark decision sparks backlash from government and churches
The supreme court of Kenya has criticised the government for failure to register an association for LGBTQ+ people, saying the decision discriminates against the rights of the (…)
, by BRAUN Dorothee, RIAMIT Kimaren Ole
Resilience and knowledge in contesting the state: the case of Lemek Group Ranch in Kenya
The question of land tenure rights in most of the Southern part of the world have their root cause in the colonial encounter. The same is true in Kenya, a country with about 45 distinct ethnic and (…)
, by HERVEY Ginger
MP Esther Passaris says lives are being put at risk in a country where 40% of pregnancies are unplanned
The pills arrived with no instructions. Delivered on a Sunday to Joy’s home in Kayole, an informal settlement in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, by someone she didn’t know.
She had ordered them (…)
, by OTIENO David Calleb
Early this week, Kenyans woke up to blockbuster like stories of how prices of items and commodities related to the Kenyan Standard Gauge Rail (SGR) project were extremely inflated perhaps explaining why the Kenyan SGR is far much more expensive than the Tanzania SGR.
According to the Daily (…)
, by DHAR Sushovan
A report from the recent strategy and network-building meeting of Kenya’s anti-debt movement
I reached Kenya on my way back from South Africa on April 13, 2019. This visit was a follow up of the earlier initiatives including a training on debt audit held at Nairobi, Kenya from July 29-30, (…)
, by BURKE Jason
Decision has implications for rest of continent, where LGBT people face widespread discrimination
Judges in Kenya’s high court will decide on Friday whether to repeal laws criminalising homosexuality, in a potentially historic decision that has implications for the rest of Africa, where LGBT (…)
, by RATCLIFFE Rebecca
Clinics reopen in country where backstreet abortions kill seven women a day and hospitalise 320
The Kenyan government has lifted a ban preventing the international charity Marie Stopes from providing any abortion services, following warnings the ruling endangered the lives of thousands of (…)
, by MUTUA Michael
The Kenyan Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board has stopped the NGO Marie Stopes International from performing abortions in Kenya. Marie Stopes is a global organisation that provides contraception and safe abortion to women in urban and rural communities. Abortion is illegal in Kenya, unless (…)
, by FAZAL Shehina
Shehina Fazal reviews ’Kenya’s War of Independence: Mau Mau and its Legacy of Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism, 1948-1990’ by Shiraz Durrani.
The public relations department of the colonial government in Kenya never referred to the Mau Mau struggles as “War of Independence” during (…)
, by GOLLA Rajiv
A road project has taken the homes of 2,000 families without compensation – yet over half of Kenyans travel on foot
Early on Sunday morning on the outskirts of Nairobi, hundreds of people gathered amid the rubble where their church once stood. Pastors preached atop bare foundations. (…)
, by NJOROGE Ngugi
Developing and Utilizing Power Resources: The Case of Kenya National Private Security Workers’ Union
A Case Study by Jacob Omolo and Emily Odhong
“Three key success stories can be told of the KNPSWU: the massive growth in union membership, the ability to build internal cohesion and (…)
One of the critical targets for countries that are trying to meet the sustainable development goals is reducing the number of mothers who die from complications during or immediately after their pregnancies. The target for 2030 is that each country will have less than 70 mothers dying for each (…)
, by AFP
Kenyan conservationists have expressed outrage at the construction of a railway line inside Nairobi’s famed national park, saying this defied a court order halting the project.
A proposed extension of the Chinese-built railway – Kenya’s biggest infrastructure project since independence – (…)
, by MOLOO Zahra
An interview with Justus Lavi Mwololo, National General Secretary of Kenya Small Scale Farmers’ Forum.
Tell me about yourself and the farming methods you practice.
I was born on a farm. In our family, we have a long history of farming. I practice mixed farming of crops and livestock. We (…)
, by WATTS Jonathan
Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son
Eight years after her baby was lead-poisoned through breast milk, Kenya’s most prominent anti-pollution campaigner (…)
, by MANJI Firoze
A few days after the elections held in Kenya on 8 August, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) announced that the incumbent president, Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, had won by a margin of 9% against his main challenger, Raila Odinga, son of (…)
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