When stigma causes more harm than Covid-19
When stigma causes more harm than Covid-19
On March 12, Wangui Waweru arrived back home in Lanet, Nakuru, from a workshop in Nairobi. Wangui, who ran a ...
Poor diet stunts children’s growth
Poor diet stunts children’s growth
When one thinks of Nakuru County, which is 150km west of capital Nairobi, images of fresh produce and plenty of ...
Why Nakuru’s poor sanitation poses health risk to population
Why Nakuru’s poor sanitation poses health risk to population
As the world becomes paranoid on hygiene amid Covid-19, Nakuru sanitation woes cause for worry Cholera, typhoid and dysentery kills ...
Sexual harassment still rife in media
Sexual harassment still rife in media
Sexual harassment in the newsroom is still a topic of concern, resuscitating calls for strict enforcement of media workplace policies. ...
Why the #metoo campaign went cold in Africa
Why the #metoo campaign went cold in Africa
It was tearful. It was shocking. The #metoo campaign unveiled in 2017 brought to the core hitherto hidden stories about ...
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Media
The missing link in the fight against Covid-19
The missing link in the fight against the dreaded Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Kenya might lie in the lack of ...
Sexual harassment still rife in media
Sexual harassment in the newsroom is still a topic of concern, resuscitating calls for strict enforcement of media workplace policies. ...
Gender
Anxiety in Kenya’s business landscape as pandemic bites
Talk to business owners in Kenya regarding the measures in place to tame the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and ...
Poor diet stunts children’s growth
When one thinks of Nakuru County, which is 150km west of capital Nairobi, images of fresh produce and plenty of ...
The massive, hidden cost of women’s unpaid work
For a long time, economists did not recognise unpaid work as work — nor the bias that declared certain tasks ...
In pictures 
Governance
Women in politics: Miles to go before parity is achieved
By Zipporah Musau In the fight for gender equality, women around the world have advanced in small and large ways. ...
Corporate boardrooms: where are the women?
A lack of diversity afflicts most companies’ boards By Kwamboka Oyaro When a woman rises to the top rung ...
Kenya’s human rights defender feted for her work
Njeri Kabeberi is a renowned human rights activist with countless international awards to her name, but has had little or ...
Guess who’s engaging the reverse gear on Africa
Africa has diametrically opposing stories. One is about a continent displaying all signs of massive economic take-off. The other is ...
Muslim women in Tunisia can now marry whoever they want—including non-Muslims
Tunisia has lifted a 44-year ban preventing Muslim women from marrying non-Muslims. Tunisia’s president Beji Caid Essebsi has led a ...
Rwanda: Women Make Up More Than Half of Kagame’s New Cabinet
11 of 20 posts in President Paul Kagame's new administration have been taken by women. Kagame has cautioned the ministers against any form of mediocrity, saying they must give their best.
Mentorship
Innovation key to improving gender equality
“Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change”, is the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, being commemorated today, March ...
Top female journalist celebrated
Veteran journalist, Lucy Oriang’, was feted during this year’s Media Council of Kenya Annual Journalism Excellence Awards held in Nairobi, ...
Agribusiness
Anxiety in Kenya’s business landscape as pandemic bites
Talk to business owners in Kenya regarding the measures in place to tame the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and ...
Technology taps into ending huge post-harvest losses
By Juliana Omale-Atemi Agriculture is one of the drivers of Kenya’s ‘Big Four’ agenda that defines the country’s development path ...
Three women, three wives, one true story
A novel, a play and three women on the politics of polygamy, and what can change it. “I will not ...
Access Africa
How have mobile phones transformed young lives in Africa? Today in Africa most young people in urban areas have mobile ...