Gender empowerment projects that focus on girls leave out half of the equation. Our panel suggests ways to engage boys and men to end discrimination Challenge misogyny in public: Some of our most powerful work has been when we've held senior male politicians and public figures accountable for misogynistic statements or abusive behaviour. The documentary film Can't Just Fold Your Arms shows our case...
Poachers chopped tusks off three of the elephants, and hacked the face off one juvenile in Tsavo East national park Six elephants were killed by poachers in a Kenyan national park last week, including four calves, one of which was so young it did not have tusks. Three suspects have since been arrested. The incident in Tsavo East national park on Thursday, described by conservationists as demonstrating...
The image people have of Kenya of poverty and safari parks is being rapidly transformed. New technologies, mobile-phone banking and microfinance are opening up new connections and possibilities in contemporary Kenya, and across the rest of Africa This is a Sundance Institute short film challenge winner. Entries are now open for next year's competition Continue reading... ...
21 - 25 April: Catch up with the highs, the lows and the hot topics in development this week Pagan Amum, Oyai Deng Ajak, Majak D'Agoot and Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth , the South Sudanese senior politicians were freed from prison after the government dropped treason charges against them . Continue reading... ...
Move follows a successful pilot project in major protected wildlife area that saw drones reduce poaching by up to 96% Kenya is to deploy drones in a bid to monitor and stop the poaching of elephants and rhinos in all of its 52 national parks and reserves. Continue reading... ...
Unesco study reports huge growth in adults and children reading books on phones in Africa and the Indian subcontinent Unesco is pointing to a "mobile reading revolution" in developing countries after a year-long study found that adults and children are increasingly reading multiple books and stories on their phones. Nearly 5,000 people in seven countries Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria,...
Bomb explodes outside police station in area targeted in past attacks that police say Somali militants have carried out At least four people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside a police station in a poor neighbourhood of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday, the country's interior ministry said. Police officers had earlier stopped the saloon car at traffic lights and were taking the occupants...
Progress on gender equality is being eroded by new laws that violate the constitution and indoctrinate discrimination News of the death of a 13-year-old girl from Kajiado in southern Kenya after she underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) brings to mind another 12-year-old Maasai girl, Sasiano Nchoe, who died in very similar circumstances after undergoing FGM in 2008. Continue reading... ...
An Oxford University study has found that criminalisation of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia has lead to underground circumcisions. Social norms, not just the law, need to change Since female genital mutilation (FGM) has been outlawed in Ethiopia, some rural families have been holding clandestine circumcisions, said parents at confidential focus group discussions in Ethiopia for Oxford University's...
From the hipsters of Namibia to those taking inspiration from the sapeurs of the Congo, vintage fashion is hot in Africa right now. We asked you to share the best vintage fashion from across the continent and here's our pick of the bunch. How do you rate the style? Tell us in the comments below. Continue reading... ...
7-11 April: Catch up with the development stories you may have missed this week Jockin Arputham , a Mumbai slum resident and founder of Indias National Slum Dwellers Association, who has won a $1.25 million Skoll award for social entrepreneurship . Milestones Continue reading... ...
Kenyan workers freed by Amisom troops inside Somalia Pair were kidnapped by Islamist group in 2011 Two aid workers who were kidnapped by the Somali al-Shabaab group in northern Kenya in 2011 have been freed by the Kenyan army. Continue reading... ...
Satrin Osinya was shot in the head by the same bullet that killed his mother as she tried to shelter him during deadly raid in March, reports IQ4 news First, a jihadist bullet lodged in his skull. Then his father had no money to take him to the hospital for surgery. The situation was further complicated when it dawned on the family that there was no neurosurgeon in the whole of Mombasa County, their...
New index-based livestock insurance protects vegetation rather than animals. But can it generate trust within the community? It was almost inevitable that the day chosen to make the first drought insurance payments in Wajir, in the arid north-east of Kenya, would be the same day the rains came. Herders who lost sheep, cattle and camels in the scorching first quarter of the year sheltered from the storm...
Khat is as potent as a strong cup of coffee and has no organised crime involvement yet the government wants to spend £150m on a ban that would create far more severe problems There is much debate about drugs policy. Should we continue to follow the criminal justice-led approach that we have tried to date, costing huge amounts of money and achieving little? Or should we move to a health-based approach,...
NGOs warn that effects of prolonged dry spell combined with a short, belated rainy season could cause widespread hunger Aid workers are warning of a looming humanitarian crisis in north-west Kenya, where a year-long drought and the late arrival of the rainy season have left more than 300,000 people in desperate need of food and water. ...
Lucy Hannan, a British journalist who has lived for more than 20 years in Kenya, has spent months fighting off a deportation order after the government declared her to be an illegal immigrant. In her latest court appearance, a Nairobi high court judge extended an order stopping the government from deporting her and told her to file her response to claims that she is engaging in subversive activities....
Rape survivors sue Kenya's director of public prosecutions for failing to investigate atrocities after the 2007-08 polls Six years after being gang-raped and beaten in front of her husband and four-year-old child during a wave of post-election violence in Kenya , Nancy is still awaiting justice. If it were left to the country's director of public prosecutions, Keriako Tobiko, she would never see it....
Two gunmen shot indiscriminately at worshippers then fled, amid heightened warnings of extremist violence in major Kenyan cities At least four people were killed when two gunmen burst into a crowded church and opened fired on worshippers near the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The attack, which left about 17 wounded, came despite increased security in Kenyan cities amid heightened warnings of extremist violence....
Bill that permits men to marry more than one person without wife's consent prompts furious backlash Kenya's parliament has passed a bill allowing men to marry as many women as they want, prompting furious female MPs to storm out, reports say. The bill, which amended existing marriage legislation, was passed late on Thursday to formalise customary law about marrying more than one person. The proposed...