Slum dwellers battle COVID-19 downturn with virtual currency

By Reuters,

Sitting on a low bench at her shop in a Nairobi slum, Grace Wangari sifted through a handful of grains that a waiting customer had just ordered. As...

coronavirus , sarafu

PROFILE: Chris Diaz, pushing for youth to get involved in conservation

By Tony Owori,

Meet Chris Diaz, a business leader and conservationist born in Mombasa, Kenya. Through his career, Diaz has made great strides and contributed a lo...

conservation , diaz , Forest conservation

PROFILE: Jane Gitau, opening doors for other women

By Guest Writer,

Jane Gitau is the Head of Corporate Communication at the Kenya Seed Company and the Chair of Greenbelt Movement, Kenya. She is a Chevening Scholar ...

greenbelt , maathai

PROFILE: Caren Wakoli mentoring youth to eradicate poverty

By Guest Writer,

By Patience Nyange and Esther Kiragu Caren Wakoli is the Executive Director at Emerging Leaders Foundation. She calls herself a student of life,...

Caren Wakoli , Emerging Leaders Foundation , YALI

OPINION: Sexual harassment still rampant in Kenyan newsrooms

By Guest Writer,

By Sharon Kiburi As the world comes to terms with appropriate work space protocol for women and all genders, Kenya media lags far behind. Also R...

#Metoo , MCK , sexual harassment

Uhuru lauds Maendeleo ya Wanawake for fighting for women’s rights

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has commended Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organization (MYWO) for its frontline role in fighting for women’s rights in Kenya. ...

kobia , Maendeleo Ya Wanaume Organization , UNFPA , women's rights

OPINION: Media a critical player in ending impunity in GBV

By Guest Writer,

By Victor Bwire While the Kenyan law outlaws a lot of traditional harmful practices that for many years have enabled perpetuation of gender inequal...

GBV , Two-Thirds Gender bill. , Women in news

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

By Guest Writer,

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

OPINION: BBI an affront to women’s fundamental rights and liberties

By Guest Writer,

The women of Kenya, represented by women’s rights and civil society organizations and networks, acknowledge that the 2010 Constitution was a consens...

BBI

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

‘Corona ikianza tulikuwa na kazi, lakini sasa hatuna’: Why Albert Otieno and Beatrice Mbendo now depend on social protection

By Rachel Ombaka,

Albert Otieno, 32, lives with his mother, two children and a cousin in Kayole, one of Nairobi County's most densely populated estates. Also Read: T...

coronavirus , Oxfam

President Kenyatta applauds the church for role in national transformation

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has commended the Kenyan church for being at the forefront of driving socio-economic and political change in the country. ...

All Saints Cathedral , Dr Jackson Nasoore Ole Sapit , President Uhuru Kenyatta

Kirinyaga residents urged to embrace routine cancer screening

By Johnson Muriithi,

Residents of Kirinyaga County have been urged to embrace routine screening for cancer to enable early diagnosis and timely treatment. Speaking duri...

OPINION: The unspoken inequality of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Guest Writer,

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

BWIRE: Media should be included in BBI reforms

By Guest Writer,

By Victor Bwire Media missed out in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report, just like some few segments of the society. However, we believ...

BBI , media

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

By Guest Writer,

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

President Uhuru Kenyatta lauds the youth for innovation

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has commended the youth for being at the forefront in technological developments that are set to transform the country throug...

Huduma Namba

OPINION: Speak out your agony

By Sponsored,

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

Senator Falhada: TikTok creating ‘culture of violence’, wants it regulated in Kenya

By Philip Mwaniki,

Nominated Senator Iman Falhada Dekow now wants the government to come up with policy and legal framework to regulate the usage and presence of giant s...

ByteDance , Huawei , iphone , Senator Iman Falhada Dekow , Tiktok

Kenya risks losing Ksh.12B from Global Fund

By Faizal Ahmed,

The gains made in the war on HIV, TB and Malaria could be compromised if Global Fund withdraws support to Kenya in the next round of funding. The G...

Global Fund , UNAIDS , UNDP , UNFPA , USAID , who