Kenya

Kenya outlawed Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in 2011. Despite this, 21% of Kenyan women are circumcised today. The Demographic Health Survey of Kenya found that FGM among 15-49 year old women declined from 37% in 1998 to 27% in 2009, which shows how slowly this culture is changing.

The Pan Africa movement is a powerful force in Africa and in the Diaspora seeking to engage in international real politics in order to neutralize the forces of neo-liberal globalization, which favor capital and markets.

We Kenyans generally aren’t rational about President Barack Obama. To most citizens he is the much loved and admired Kenyan son who made good.

Barack Obama is visiting Kenya and Ethiopia when the people of Eastern Africa are desperate for peace. Last week Wednesday July 15, top Kenyan athletes, including former world marathon record holders, set off on a 22-day "Walk for Peace" against ethnic violence.

More than five years ago, in the dark negotiating halls of the Copenhagen climate talks, an agreement was struck that included a pledge of 100 billion dollars (Kshs.

Kenyans are obsessed with politics — and love talking about it, almost all the time. The media are obsessed about politics, devoting most of their coverage to politics and politicians. Nearly 100 per cent of op-ed pieces deal with politics (including, I have to confess, most of mine).

This report is produced as part of Mathare Social Justice Centre’s (MSJC) campaign to ‘Stop Extra-judicial Killings’ in Mathare and Nairobi environs. This campaign has both a practical and participatory action research component.

On 12 June 2015, the High Court in Mombasa dismissed all charges against Haki Africa and Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) on the basis that there was no evidence against them, yet, twenty days after the High Court's ruling, the bank accounts of the organisations remain frozen.

NAIROBI, 3 JUNE 2015 -The Civil Society Organizations Reference Group (CSORG) and the National Civil Society Congress (NCSC) wish to express their concern at the manner in which the Government has resorted to abuse of State machinery and its agencies to harass, intimidate and liquidate civil soci