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Childcare solution springs up for Nairobi's market trader mothers

France, Feb. 15 -- Just after sunrise, Miriam Otieno lifts her two-year-old son on to her back and locks the door of her one-room house in Nairobi's Eastlands. By 7am she will be at a stall in the mar... Read More


Kenya: The accidental librarian keeping Kibera's kids in books

France, Jan. 31 -- Every afternoon at four o'clock, Joseph Otieno unlocks a dented metal door at the edge of Kibera, Nairobi.The sign above the door reads "Community Library" - painted by hand and fad... Read More


Stigma and sisterhood: how one Kenyan woman knitted a healthcare revolution

France, Dec. 27 -- The first thing you notice about Mary is her laughter - warm, loud, and quite unexpected from one who has faced death twice. Inside a tiny tailoring shop in the town of Thika, near... Read More


'Climate whiplash': East Africa caught between floods and drought

France, Dec. 6 -- More than 50 people died in the floods, thousands more were displaced - and an agricultural landscape a generation in the making was washed away in a single night. Eight months late... Read More