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Police in Kenya’s capital hurled tear gas canisters Tuesday at hundreds of protesters angry about gender-based violence and femicide, or the killing of women, and arrested an unknown number of ...
Unbelievable as it may seem, protests against femicide are being ... revealed a staggering statistic about the rate of femicide in Kenya. It was revealed that 97 women had been killed in the ...
Everlyn Namai dreamed that her missing cousin, 26-year-old Josephine Owino, came to her for help. “I’m here in the cold, in ...
Femicide Protests: A Cry for Gender Justice The year ... January and February saw some of the largest protests in Kenya's history, with women and allies marching to demand justice for victims ...
The US Embassy in Nairobi condemned the violent crackdown on anti-femicide protesters by Kenyan police ... covering politics and current affairs in Kenya. Nairobi - The United States Embassy ...
"Kenya is still a patriarchal society," she said. In December a peaceful demonstration against femicide in Nairobi was met with tear gas, with authorities arresting some of the participants.
In January 2024, protests erupted across Nairobi ... behind the scenes and their thoughts on whether Kenya is truly committed to ending femicide.
A Kenyan lawmaker was gunned down on a busy Nairobi street by a motorcycle-riding assassin on Wednesday evening, in what the ...
Members of Kenya's security forces responsible for shooting unarmed protesters dead during the June 2024 demonstrations outside Parliament have been identified by a BBC investigation. A forensic ...
The members of Kenya's security forces who shot dead anti-tax protesters at the country's parliament last June have been identified by the BBC. The BBC's analysis of more than 5,000 images also ...
Protests continued in Kenya's capital and elsewhere Tuesday over a finance bill that would raise the cost of living, even after the president said he would not sign it in the wake of the storming ...