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Supreme court rules for freedom of association but landmark decision sparks backlash from government and churches
The supreme court of Kenya has criticised the government for failure to register an association for LGBTQ+ people, saying the decision discriminates against the rights of the (...)
Resilience and knowledge in contesting the state: the case of Lemek Group Ranch in Kenya
The question of land tenure rights in most of the Southern part of the world have their root cause in the colonial encounter. The same is true in Kenya, a country with about 45 distinct ethnic and (...)
MP Esther Passaris says lives are being put at risk in a country where 40% of pregnancies are unplanned
The pills arrived with no instructions. Delivered on a Sunday to Joy’s home in Kayole, an informal settlement in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, by someone she didn’t know.
She had ordered them (...)
Early this week, Kenyans woke up to blockbuster like stories of how prices of items and commodities related to the Kenyan Standard Gauge Rail (SGR) project were extremely inflated perhaps explaining why the Kenyan SGR is far much more expensive than the Tanzania SGR.
According to the Daily (...)
A report from the recent strategy and network-building meeting of Kenya’s anti-debt movement
I reached Kenya on my way back from South Africa on April 13, 2019. This visit was a follow up of the earlier initiatives including a training on debt audit held at Nairobi, Kenya from July 29-30, 2018 (...)
Decision has implications for rest of continent, where LGBT people face widespread discrimination
Judges in Kenya’s high court will decide on Friday whether to repeal laws criminalising homosexuality, in a potentially historic decision that has implications for the rest of Africa, where LGBT (...)
Clinics reopen in country where backstreet abortions kill seven women a day and hospitalise 320
The Kenyan government has lifted a ban preventing the international charity Marie Stopes from providing any abortion services, following warnings the ruling endangered the lives of thousands of (...)
The Kenyan Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board has stopped the NGO Marie Stopes International from performing abortions in Kenya. Marie Stopes is a global organisation that provides contraception and safe abortion to women in urban and rural communities. Abortion is illegal in Kenya, (...)
Shehina Fazal reviews ’Kenya’s War of Independence: Mau Mau and its Legacy of Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism, 1948-1990’ by Shiraz Durrani.
The public relations department of the colonial government in Kenya never referred to the Mau Mau struggles as “War of Independence” during the (...)
A road project has taken the homes of 2,000 families without compensation – yet over half of Kenyans travel on foot
Early on Sunday morning on the outskirts of Nairobi, hundreds of people gathered amid the rubble where their church once stood. Pastors preached atop bare foundations. (...)
Developing and Utilizing Power Resources: The Case of Kenya National Private Security Workers’ Union
A Case Study by Jacob Omolo and Emily Odhong
“Three key success stories can be told of the KNPSWU: the massive growth in union membership, the ability to build internal cohesion and solidarity, (...)
One of the critical targets for countries that are trying to meet the sustainable development goals is reducing the number of mothers who die from complications during or immediately after their pregnancies. The target for 2030 is that each country will have less than 70 mothers dying for each (...)
Kenyan conservationists have expressed outrage at the construction of a railway line inside Nairobi’s famed national park, saying this defied a court order halting the project.
A proposed extension of the Chinese-built railway – Kenya’s biggest infrastructure project since independence – through (...)
An interview with Justus Lavi Mwololo, National General Secretary of Kenya Small Scale Farmers’ Forum.
Tell me about yourself and the farming methods you practice.
I was born on a farm. In our family, we have a long history of farming. I practice mixed farming of crops and livestock. We have (...)
Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son
Eight years after her baby was lead-poisoned through breast milk, Kenya’s most prominent anti-pollution campaigner is (...)
A few days after the elections held in Kenya on 8 August, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) announced that the incumbent president, Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, had won by a margin of 9% against his main challenger, Raila Odinga, son (...)
Kenya has a large and growing private security industry employing over 450,000 employees in at least 2,000 registered companies, the majority of which are local. The industry has a burgeoning informal economy and is increasingly characterized by subcontracting, outsourcing and market segmentation. A constant in the industry, at least until 2011, was ineffective organization and representation of industry employees. This was manifested in the multiple trade unions in the sector, (...)
Bunge la Mwananchi has revolutionized grassroots politics in Kenya since the 1990s. Against the backdrop of elite politics and entrenched neo-liberalism, the movement has created a critical space for democratic participation from below and its impact has been far-reaching.
INTRODUCTION
Bunge (...)
Although it remains one of the best known pro-poor social movements in Kenya, Bunge la Mwananchi faces serious internal challenges that hamper its effectiveness in mounting collective action. The problems need urgent attention.
There is nothing uniquely so human as the meeting of the ordinary (...)
Bunge la Mwananchi has revolutionized grassroots politics in Kenya since the 1990s. In this second part of reflections on the movement, the writer examines Bunge’s challenges and its future. Part I of this article appeared last week.
CHALLENGES
The growth in stature as well as membership has (...)
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