Kenya Archives – Page 5 of 6

Kenya’s Fast Women Are Also Off-Track Champions

By Fredrick Nzwili ● Arts & Culture ● October 24, 2006

Frequent stars of the New York City marathon and other racing events, Kenyan women are also champions off the track. Tegla Loroupe fights female genital mutilation. Lornah Kiplagat trains runners. Ruth Waithera saves street children.

Latest in Kenya

Kenyan Activists Push New Sex-Assault Law

By Ochieng Ogodo ● Commentary ● May 11, 2006

A bill in Kenya’s Parliament calls for longer prison terms for rapists, but stops short of chemical castration, a punishment that some advocates sought. The bill follows strong media coverage of a wave of rape cases, but appears to be languishing.

In Kenya, Nomadic Women Hit Hard by Drought

By Masha Hamilton ● Politics ● March 12, 2006

A widespread drought has East Africa in its grips and aid agencies warn that food supplies are running short. Among the nomadic herders of Kenya, women are the hardest hit as men leave them behind to search for food and water.

Fight to End Mutilation Hits Gritty Juncture

By Meghan Sapp ● Crime & Law ● February 20, 2006

The international fight against female genital mutilation pushes African activists to a new juncture. After the ratification of an important African Union protocol, gritty local politics lie ahead.

Influence of Kenyan Female Leaders Felt in Somalia

By Fredrick Nzwili ● Employment ● November 17, 2005

As Millie Odhiambo joins a spirited effort to turn back Kenya’s Nov. 21 constitutional referendum, women struggling for greater political representation in Somalia take heart from her example. Seventh in a series on emerging female leaders in Africa.

FGM in Kenya: Outlawed, Not Eradicated

By Ochieng Ogodo ● Crime & Law ● February 8, 2005

Djibouti has just ratified the African Union’s Maputo Protocol banning female genital mutilation. But activists in Kenya, which outlawed FGM in 2001, warn that the engrained cultural practice is easier to outlaw than to eradicate.

Nobel Winner Energizes Women’s Environmental Push

By Miriri Duncan ● Uncategorized ● October 15, 2004

Since becoming the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize a week ago, Wangari Maathai has had no time to rest on her laurels. Instead she has been busy energizing an international effort to bolster women’s role in protecting the environment.

Women Drive Film Industry in Kenya

By Miriri Duncan ● Uncategorized ● September 21, 2004

Women are firmly in the driver’s seat of Kenya’s film industry, but that doesn’t mean they have it easy. They face adversities, but they always tell their stories and entertain their audiences.

Wax Keeps African Women on Front Page

By Luchina Fisher ● Uncategorized ● July 1, 2004

At a time when war violence monopolizes most foreign reporting, Emily Wax has managed to get stories on the front page of The Washington Post about African women’s daily lives and historic cultural struggles.

Anti-Abortion Policies Take Heavy Toll in Africa

By Nicole Itano ● Health & Science ● November 2, 2003

A Kenyan woman bleeding from a botched abortion is denied medical help by disapproving hospital nurses. It is the kind of incident that translates into high maternal mortality rates in Africa, where reproductive-health clinics are losing U.S. funding.