Baringo teens trading sex for money to buy sanitary towels

By Citizen Reporter,

Poverty and lack of parental responsibility have been cited as the major reasons for a rise in teenage pregnancies especially during this COVID-19 per...

Baringo County , COVID-19 , teenage pregnancy

Pumwani Maternity Hospital closed to new patients as fumigation begins

By Makori Ongechi,

The facility that on any normal day would serve hundreds of women remained closed as the 41 nurses who tested positive for COVID-19 spent their time i...

Boaz Onchari , COVID-19 , KNUN , Pumwani Maternity Hospital

Health workers suspend strike for 21 days because Kenya has ‘too many problems’

By Tabitha Rotich,

Kenya’s healthcare workers who were set to down their tools on Monday upon the expiration of their strike notice have now suspended the planned go-s...

COVID-19 , Healthcare workers , KNUN , PPE , Seth Panyako

Nurses to down tools on May 18 if risk allowance not harmonised – Panyako

By Vincent Afande,

Nurses have issued a two-week strike notice saying they will down their tools on May 18 if risk allowance is not harmonised. The Kenya National Uni...

Nurses , panyako , PPE

Woman jailed for recording her boss’s alleged sexual harassment granted amnesty

By CNN,

Indonesian lawmakers have unanimously approved amnesty for a woman who was sentenced to six months in prison for recording her boss's alleged sexual h...

Amnesty , Indonesia , sexual harassment

Applause as Indonesia pardons woman jailed after reporting harassment

By Reuters,

Indonesia parliament approved on Thursday an amnesty for a woman who was jailed after recording lewd phone calls from her boss in a case that has caus...

#MeToo movement , Baiq Nuril Maknun , Indonesia , National Commission on Violence Against Women

Indonesian woman jailed for reporting harassment to seek amnesty

By Reuters,

An Indonesian woman sentenced to prison for reporting her employer for sexual harassment said on Monday she will ask President Joko Widodo for an amne...

Indonesia , President Joko Widodo

Waiguru threatens to sack all striking health workers as strike enters day 9

By Johnson Muriithi,

Kirinyaga Governor Ann Waiguru has issued a one day ultimatum to the over 1000 striking health workers or face the sack. Speaking on Wednesday at T...

Governor Anne Waiguru , kirinyaga health worker's strike

All health workers withdrawn from Kirinyaga County-KMPDU orders

By Johnson Muriithi,

The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has directed all health workers under the Ministry of Health to go home. S...

KNUN issues another nurses strike notice

By Citizen Reporter,

The Kenya National Union Nurses (KNUN) on Friday issued a 60-day strike notice. While issuing the notice, KNUN Secretary General Seth Panyako said ...

KNUN , Nurses strike , Seth Panyako

Relief as nurses’ strike is called off

By Dzuya Walter,

The three-week long countrywide nurses strike has been called off. This was announced on Tuesday morning by the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KN...

Justice Nelson Oboudha , Nurses strike , Seth Panyako

Nurses strike suspended in Homa Bay

By Aly Abich,

Nurses in Homa Bay County have suspended their strike for 60 days after signing a return to work formula with the county government. Kenya National...

Nurses strike

Gov’t drops tough talk on nurses, says dialogue on to end deadlock

By Allan Irungu,

The government has dropped its hard talk on firing striking nurses who defied a return-to-work order and instituted a conciliatory team to help end t...

Labour CS Ukur Yatani , Nurses strike Kenya , Ukur Yattany

Nurses call Uhuru’s bluff, stay away from hospitals as deadline expires

By Allan Irungu,

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday warned striking nurses to return to work by today (Friday, Feb 15) or they would be fired. That threat was fo...

Counci of Governors , Nurses strike , president kenyatta , Seth Panyako

Nurses not at work Friday 8am to be sacked

By Benjamin Muriuki,

The government has reiterated that it will sack and take further disciplinary action against nurses who will not report to work by 8am on Friday, Febr...

Nurses strike , Seth Panyako

Nurses vow to defy Uhuru return-to-work order

By Olivia Gatwiri,

Hours after President Uhuru Kenyatta issued a stern warning to nurses to return to work by Friday, February 15, their union has said they will stay pu...

Nurses strike , Seth Panyako , Uhuru kenyatta

Nyeri nurses call off strike after talks with county gov’t

By Martin Munene,

Nyeri nurses on Tuesday called off their week-long strike following day-long deliberations with the county government. This comes a day after the c...

Caroline Karugu , Governor Mutahi Kahiga , Nurses strike , nyeri county

Crisis in public hospitals as more nurses down tools

By Benjamin Muriuki,

The country is headed for yet another week of paralysis in public health facilities across various counties with nurses under the Ministry of Health a...

ministry of health , Nurses strike

Nurses remain defiant on strike despite court order

By Citizen Reporter,

The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) Secretary General Seth Panyako insisted that they will ignore the directive of the court suspending their st...

Nurses strike , panyako

Health services paralysed as nurses strike kicks off

By Benjamin Muriuki,

The country is staring at a health crisis as nurses in 11 counties on Monday morning downed their tools over allowances that are yet to be implemented...

Nurses strike , Seth Panyako