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Man, 27, cycles from Busia to Moyale in COVID-19 awareness campaign
By Moses Mwenda,
1841, August 12, 2020 (EAT)
A 27-year-old man began a journey on a bicycle from Moyale township on the Kenya-Ethiopia border heading to Busia on the Kenya-Uganda border. The jou...
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Providing women with contraception could save poor countries billions – researchers
By Reuters,
1104, July 29, 2020 (EAT)
Low- and middle-income countries could save billions of dollars a year in health care costs by investing in making contraception widely available to w...
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Baringo teens trading sex for money to buy sanitary towels
By Citizen Reporter,
1213, July 26, 2020 (EAT)
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...
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Push for SRHR policies, legal frameworks to protect the vulnerable amid COVID-19
By Citizen Reporter,
1558, July 10, 2020 (EAT)
Initially, the awareness on women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) was more focused on the distribution of sanitary towels to youn...
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President Kenyatta orders probe on Gender-Based Violence, teenage pregnancies
By Ian Omondi,
1434, July 6, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has expressed concern and sounded the alarm on rising cases of Gender-Based Violence and instances of teenage pregnancy. T...
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Uhuru on teenage pregnancies: There will be hell to pay for chiefs, perpetrators
By Tonny Ndungu,
1443, July 3, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta now says there will be hell to pay for those who have impregnated minors across the country. President Kenyatta was speaki...
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CS Mucheru: Kenyan parents struggling to control online content for children
By Citizen Reporter,
1800, June 21, 2020 (EAT)
ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has decried increasing cases of children accessing inappropriate content following the closure of schools over the C...
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CS Magoha wants pornography banned in Kenya to curb teenage pregnancies
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1618, June 18, 2020 (EAT)
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha wants pornographic sites banned in the country, saying they are to blame for the high rate of teenage ...
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Two bodies retrieved from the Nairobi river during clean-up exercise
By Citizen Reporter,
1035, June 11, 2020 (EAT)
The Comb Green clean-up team working under Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has retrieved two more bodies from the Nairobi river. The bodies of infants ...
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OPINION: Reproductive health in a man’s world
By Guest Writer,
1524, May 5, 2020 (EAT)
I do digital storytelling and new media social justice campaigns. Two years ago, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (Femne...
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Teenage girls in public primary schools to get sanitary towels from Class 6
By George Amolo,
833, March 13, 2020 (EAT)
The Government through the Education Ministry has embarked on a program to distribute sanitary towels to teenage girls in all public primary schools c...
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Nyeri: Parents who won’t take kids to Form One risk arrest, prosecution
By Samuel Mbogo,
926, January 22, 2020 (EAT)
Parents from Nyeri County who will not have taken their kids to join Form One by Friday, January 24, risk getting arrested and prosecuted. Accord...
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‘Tunatoa uniform tunavukisha’: Pupils forced to swim across River Lusumu
By Violet Namatsi,
1120, January 21, 2020 (EAT)
Imagine starting your academic year by swimming across a river to school? This has become the norm for some school children in Mumias East, Kakame...
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World’s most celebrated teacher Peter Tabichi meets Pope Francis at the Vatican
By Citizen Reporter,
1012, January 9, 2020 (EAT)
Peter Tabichi, the Kenyan science teacher who won the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2019, met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Tuesday. Tabi...
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KCPE 2019: ‘It’s time we started thinking of the boy child,’ says CS Magoha
By Ian Omondi,
1715, November 18, 2019 (EAT)
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha on Monday urged for more attention for the boy-child as girls outperformed boys for the second year in...
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Migori couple awarded for using contraceptives
By Citizen Team,
926, September 27, 2019 (EAT)
A Migori couple was on Thursday awarded as the county celebrated World Contraceptive Day. Chacha Mwita and his wife Rebecca were recognized as the ...
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22 teenagers infected with HIV/AIDS daily, Health Ministry says
By Citizen Reporter,
1347, September 25, 2019 (EAT)
It has now emerged that 22 adolescents countrywide are getting infected with HIV/AIDS daily. The report released by the Ministry of Health on Wedne...
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Sierra Leone school defies state ban on pregnant girls in class
By Reuters,
1205, July 17, 2019 (EAT)
When Mariatu Sesay realised she was pregnant at 14, one thing scared her more than the social isolation she felt in the classroom: Sierra Leone law ba...
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Police arrest boy, 13 and his 15-year-old pregnant girlfriend in Migori
By George Juma,
1812, March 25, 2019 (EAT)
Police in Migori are holding two teenagers, a 13-year-old boy and his 15-year-old pregnant girlfriend. The two, who hail from Kakaro village in Suna ...
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Pregnant Form Three student found dead in Narok lodging
By Andrew Langat,
1513, February 23, 2019 (EAT)
A Form Three student has been found dead at a lodging in Narok County. Confirming the incident, area chief Titus Tonui identified the girl as a stu...
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