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U.S. Wants To Double The Amount Of International Forces Fighting Gangs In Haiti And Remove Kenya From Leadership Role

The U.S. wants to double the amount of international forces fighting gangs in Haiti and remove Kenya from its leading role, an official said at the Organization of American States

Latin Times

How Nollywood films help Kenyan housemaids make sense of their lives

Nollywood, Nigeria’s prolific video-film industry, has been popular in Kenya since it was introduced to east Africa at around the turn of the century.

The Conversation

Weaponising The Feed: Inside Kenya's Online War Against Activists

When software developer Rose Njeri created a pro-democracy tool to help Kenyans object to a contested finance bill, she was thrown in jail and targeted by an online smear campaign.

International Business Times

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As UN agencies mull Kenya move, some fear exclusion from Nairobi’s growth

Kenyans veer between hope for prosperity and wariness as UN plans relocation of key offices from Western cities.

Al Jazeera

‘There was so much vitriol’: Willis Chimano on being outed while in Africa’s biggest boy band

The Kenyan singer, part of the wildly popular Sauti Sol, faced hatred and threats but it made him determined to push for change in a country where being gay is still illegal

The Guardian - UK

After Deadly Protests, Kenya's Ruto Seeks Football Distraction

Whether in a sports jersey or a suit, Kenyan President William Ruto is casting himself as a model supporter of the national football team as an international tournament provides respite from recent bloody protests against his regime.

International Business Times

2.6 million-year-old stone tools reveal ancient human relatives were 'forward planning' 600,000 years earlier than thought

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

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British troops stationed in Kenya found paying for sex despite ban

The British Army has vowed to crack down on sexual abuse after an inquiry found some of its soldiers using sex workers at a training site in Kenya.

Euronews

Kenya’s 1950 Kolloa massacre: Britain won’t own up to its colonial violence but communities need closure

In 1950, British forces killed at least 29 civilians in one of the deadliest, but least chronicled, episodes of colonial violence in Kenya.

The Conversation

Soaring demand at food banks across Africa thanks to massive aid cuts

IN FOCUS: Food banks in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa say they are under increasing pressure, writes Nick Ferris – with aid cuts by Donald Trump’s US and other nations compounding the impact of the climate crisis and a spike in the cost of living

The Independent UK

The unusual tactics used by farmers to stop marauding elephants

Farmers face challenges with elephants raiding crops and sometimes causing harm

The Independent UK

Refugees in Kenya impacted by food aid cuts; WFP rolls out new system

The WFP says aid is being cut by 60 percent for the most vulnerable groups including pregnant women and disabled people.

Al Jazeera

Bus carrying mourners overturns in Kenya, killing 25 people

The driver lost control of the bus in Kisumu, on a notorious section of road where accidents are frequent.

Al Jazeera

At least 21 killed after bus carrying people back from funeral crashes in Kenya

Road accidents are common in Kenya and the wider East African region, where roads are often narrow and in poor condition with many potholes.

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The Independent UK

A bus carrying mourners from a funeral overturns in Kenya, killing 21 people

A bus carrying mourners from a funeral in southwestern Kenya has overturned and plunged into a ditch, killing at least 21 people

The Guardian - UK

‘This is lawfare’: Kenya ‘weaponising the law’ to silence critics and protesters

Those swept up in mass arrests of demonstrators in July faced punitive bail terms and draconian charges under terrorism laws

The Independent UK

6 killed in air ambulance crash just outside Kenya's capital

An air ambulance provider and a local official in Kenya says that at least six people have been killed when a plane belonging to the medical service crashed in a residential area just outside Nairobi

The Conversation

Côte d'Ivoire’s sacred talking drum is coming home: lessons from Kenya on how it could transform lives

The French parliament has unanimously passed a law to return the Djidji Ayôkwé, a sacred talking drum stolen by colonial forces from Côte d’Ivoire in 1916.

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Endangered US contraceptives put 1.4 million women at risk, NGO claims

More than 1.4 million women and girls in Africa will lose access to contraceptives as the U.S. plans to burn $10 million worth of supplies stored in Europe.

The Guardian - UK

US destruction of contraceptives denies 1.4m African women and girls lifesaving care, NGO says

Incineration of $9.7m of contraceptives to lead to 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions, IPPF says

The Independent UK

Trump’s destructive plan ‘will deny 1.4m women and girls birth control’

The supplies could prevent an estimated 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions if they were handed out, the International Planned Parenthood Federation says

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40-Year-Old Kenyan Man’s claim About Being Eldest Son Of Elon Musk Resurfaces As Netizens Do The Math

"Something's off about this one."

The Guardian - UK

Family of Kenyan woman allegedly murdered by UK soldiers criticise defence secretary

Niece of Agnes Wanjiru says she thinks John Healey is ‘taking us for a ride’

The National (Scotland)

Susan Egelstaff: Kenyan doping is ruining athletics, so what can be done?

The list of Kenyan athletes to have been found to be doping is astonishingly long, and includes women's world marathon record holder, Ruth…

Radio France Internationale

Indigenous Kenyans forced off ancestral lands in name of conservation: NGOs

Indigenous communities in northern Kenya are being pushed off their land to make way for wildlife reserves, human rights groups say. They accuse conservation groups of using tourism and carbon offset schemes to justify evictions and violence.

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