Nairobi, May 7 -- Recently, James Ouma, founder of Lifesong Kenya, had a dialogue with a man who had molested a teenager. Lifesong is an organisation that gives hope to young men and boys, previously... Read More
Nairobi, May 4 -- On the midnight of Tuesday last week, Elizabeth Machinga was fast asleep in her tiny bed which she shared with her four children in the rickety iron sheet room in Bosnia slum, Kahawa... Read More
Nairobi, May 2 -- A hotline fully dedicated to men victims of gender-based violence (GBV) has gone out of service due to lack of funds. The 1198 launched in June 2021, when Covid-19 had turned famili... Read More
Nairobi, April 26 -- This story, the last of a three-part series, was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Centre. "Thank God he's gone!" Emily James* sighed when her husband left home one morn... Read More
Nairobi, April 25 -- Last week, we published an in-depth story detailing domestic violence against men in Kenya, and the most asked question in my inbox was "so where can they get help?" Below are so... Read More
Nairobi, April 23 -- Data contained in a 2022 report by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics on status of men and women in the country indicates that 56.9 per cent of men compared to 43.1 per cent of w... Read More
Nairobi, April 19 -- Somewhere in the green hills of Ngong', Kajiado County, hope fills the air. And there is one special group of people breathing this upbeat breeze. Here lies a safe house for boys... Read More
Nairobi, April 18 -- This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Centre. One night in 2021, a year after the Covid-19 pandemic hit Kenya, an IT specialist in Nairobi faced a harrowing or... Read More
Nairobi, April 15 -- A simple search on X, formerly Twitter, about "women and Community Land Act of 2016", returns results such as "For a long time, women were side-lined in community land management;... Read More
Nairobi, April 12 -- It's no news that latrines in most public schools have either collapsed or health officials have directed the institutions' indefinite closure to save the lives of children from d... Read More