COVID is causing more people to fish illegally, Kenyan officials say. According to Kenya’s Maritime Fisheries Research Institute, poaching has tripled since last year, resulting in a daily catch decline from an estimated 600 tonnes to 200 tonnes
As crime rates in Kenya shot up during the pandemic, a Kenyan developer who was a crime victim himself created a mobile application to help people alert police about emergencies. The application has been so successful that Kenya’s police force has adopted it
An exhibition in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, opened Thursday with the objective of focusing attention on a long list of cases in which Kenyan police have been accused of extrajudicial killings
According to Kenyan humanitarian organisations and analysts, the al-Shabab terrorist group is recruiting young people who are suffering as a result of the pandemic. Local groups in Kenya organise outreach events in low-income districts to counteract their recruitment efforts
Wanini Kireri, Kenya’s first female assistant commissioner of prisons, is reshaping the prison leadership scene. Kireri is in charge of both men’s and women’s prisons across the country, where her kind yet firm leadership approach has been praised
Kenyan authorities are working to eradicate trachoma, an infectious disease that is one of Africa’s major causes of blindness. According to Brenda Mulinya’s report from Nairobi, almost seven million people in central Kenya are at risk of contracting the disease
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenya’s Department of Gender reports a nearly quintupling of documented cases of gender-based violence
Joyce Kago, 57, was divorced three times because she couldn’t have children, leaving her lonely and unable to make ends meet
Due to a decrease in bee populations caused by pesticides, Kenyan farmers claim they are forced to hand-pollinate their crops. According to Kenyan insect experts, chemicals intended to destroy desert locusts and other pests are also destroying bees and other pollinators
Kenya’s tea farming industry, one of the world’s largest, is facing job losses after a court in January ruled against a labor union’s attempt to ban tea leaf harvesting machines