Uyghur activists seek international community support to build pressure on China

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By Juan Carlos Global pop icons and celebrities are increasingly voicing support for human right violations, pro-democracy protests in Honk Kong, f...

OPINION: Crisis pregnancy centres not the solution for rape survivors

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The emergence of crisis pregnancy centres in Kenya is a problematic solution to survivors of sexual violence who are pregnant as a result of rape or e...

pregnancy centres

OPINION: U.K. can do more to strengthen security relations with Kenya

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Kenya and the United Kingdom continue to partner in key security cooperation programs exhibiting the two countries’ commitment in strengthening long...

Al Shabaab , BATUK , security , Theresa May

OPINION: COVID likely to spur housing boom in counties neighbouring Nairobi

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By Jeremy Gitonga In a recent interview with Citizen TV’s Yvonne Okwara, Unity Homes Executive Director John Latham revealed that the Covid-19 p...

Housing

OPINION: Ethical citizens will change Kenya not the constitution

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By Joseph Lister Nyaringo As we open the curtains for the New Year 2021, we need to remind ourselves that the destiny of any society is pegged on a...

BBI

OPINION: For media freedom let’s build bridges between the pen and the gun in 2021

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By Dinnah Ondari It is now cliché to refer to 2020 as a difficult year, thanks to COVID-19. Media especially took a hit from the harsh economic...

MCK , Media freedom , sexual harassment

OPINION: Restoring girls dignity through proper menstrual hygiene management 

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By Sharon Kiburi Since Kenya ratified the Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) policy in May 2020, this important milestone has attracted investors s...

menstrual hygiene management , MENSTRUATION , Safepad , sanitary towel

OPINION: Recovering from COVID-19 through greater youth economic inclusion

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By Patrick Mutahi and Steven Rebello Just on nine months since the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in Egypt, more than 1,800,000 cases have bee...

coronavirus , youth

Jamila’s Memo: You are on your own with COVID-19 hospital bills

By Jamila Mohamed,

The last two months have simply been Kenya’s worst since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March. Also Read: MOH DG Patrick Amoth reveals ...

coronavirus , NHIF

OPINION: The seismic economic effects of coronavirus

By Rachel Ombaka,

Every day, the Ministry of Health provides us with COVID-19 statistics detailing new cases and deaths. For many of us this exercise has even become...

coronavirus , Oxfam , social protection

Why I volunteered for a COVID-19 vaccine trial

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By Steve Stecklow So why did I volunteer to be injected with an experimental vaccine for COVID-19? That’s what some of my friends wanted to know ...

OPINION: The unspoken inequality of the COVID-19 pandemic

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By Levi Gikandi 243 days ago, on a feverishly hot Wednesday afternoon, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta stood in the manicured State House grounds w...

coronavirus , inequality , inua jamii , Kibera , Oxfam

OPINION: Women facing domestic violence during COVID-19 need access to safety now more than ever

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By Christine Ogutu and Wangu Kanja “My husband beat me up and threw me out into the streets in the wee hours of the night with my two children,�...

coronavirus , domestic violence , GBV

OPINION: Speak out your agony

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By Angelina Cikanda "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last," excerpts from William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming." This ...

ACTED , Concern Worldwide , COVID-19 , Impact Initiatives , Oxfam in Kenya , The Kenya Red cross society , WanguKanja Foundation

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Candle in the Wind’ explores loss, grief and everything in between

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By Ricky Thomas Nyakach The spring before he was born, Stanley Kunitz’s father committed suicide in the park. It broke his mother. So one day, as...

Austine Arnold , Candle in the Wind , grief

Open Letter from women of Kenya to Chief Justice David Maraga

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We, the undersigned women, women associations, women's rights organisations and gender equality advocates in Kenya, being representatives of women in ...

Maraga , Two Thirds Gender Principle

OPINION: I spent six years at UoN for Engineering degree but ended up packing bottle tops 14hrs a night

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Having spent at the University of Nairobi (UoN) studying engineering and graduating late 2019, I thought 2020 was the year ya kuomoka till corona happ...

bottle tops , engineering degree , University of Nairobi. , UoN , wyregi

OPINION: Dr. Ken Ouko, slain by disease many Kenyans still don’t believe is real

By Waihiga Mwaura,

I will not pretend to say that I knew Dr Ken Ouko very well. Those tributes I will leave to his family, close friends, colleagues etc. But the litt...

coronavirus , Ken Ouko

DUALE: I came, I saw and I conquered

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Today marks the end of my seven years of service to the great people of Kenya as the Leader of Majority of the National Assembly. I was the first o...

duale , JUBILEE , KIMUNYA , ruto

COVID-19: revealing the inequalities in the world of work

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While most workers will not have the opportunity to take the streets and raise their challenges, we need to enforce a core message: the COVID-19 disru...

COVID-19