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Many Kenyans have embraced vigilante cops – an ineffective police force is to blame

In March 2017, Ahmed Rashid, a Kenyan police officer, shot and killed two unarmed teenagers accused of theft. They had surrendered and were lying on the ground in a Nairobi neighbourhood. Rashid executed them in full view of the public. This was caught on camera.

The Conversation

‘Every chemist has a backroom’: the rise of secret FGM in Kenya

A move away from public ceremonies to ‘medicalised’ cutting is one of the greatest threats to eliminating the abusive practice, say campaigners

The Guardian - UK

Kenya's GMO maize push sowing trouble for food sector, farmers warn

(This Dec.15 story has been corrected to remove reference to GMO crops being seedless in paragraph 5 and to fix the timing of the lifting of the ban in paragraph 2)

Reuters

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Kenya in 2022: 4 essential reads on a year of political drama and economic hardships

The year 2022 was always going to be an eventful one. After nearly 10 years in power, President Uhuru Kenyatta was destined to leave office to make way for the winner of the August 2022 presidential vote. Would it be his former bitter rival turned political ally Raila Odinga? Or…

The Conversation

Meta sued for $2bn over Facebook posts ‘rousing hate’ in Ethiopia

A lawsuit filed in Kenya alleges Facebook’s recommendations systems amplified violent posts, inflaming the conflict.

Al Jazeera

Joe Biden is meeting African leaders - why free trade is a major talking point

African leaders face a dilemma over trade relations with the United States. Should they push for the extension of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) or for each country’s bilateral trade deal with the world’s biggest economy?

The Conversation

In Kenya, these interventions are decreasing maternal mortality

In five years, a Kenyan county with one of the highest maternal mortality numbers nationwide has changed its fortunes.

Al Jazeera

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Ex-Olympic champion David Rudisha survives plane crash three years on from bus collision

The two-time Olympic Gold medallist was one of six passengers on a light aircraft which crash landed in his native Kenya, but they all remarkably walked away from the scene with minor injuries

Daily Mirror

Former Olympic champion David Rudisha survives plane crash in Kenya

The two-times Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha has survived a plane crash in south-east Kenya three years after also escaping unharmed from a car wreck

The Guardian - UK

Kenya's Lapsset development corridor: between a bright future and a grim past

The Lamu Port-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport – or Lapsset – corridor is the flagship project of Kenya’s Vision 2030 development agenda. Inaugurated in 2012, the planned corridor includes a railway, highways and an oil pipeline connecting newly discovered oil fields in the north to a new port in Lamu, north of…

The Conversation

Brit who disappeared in Kenya sparking manhunt found in pub after four-day bender

The 22-year-old Brit, Nelson Newbery, disappeared last week in Nairobi, Kenya, prompting a police manhunt and his dad to fly out from England - but he was actually in the pub

Daily Mirror

In Kenya, some Maasai turn from lion-killing to Olympics

Kenya’s most identifiable community is abandoning spear-aided lion hunting for a modern javelin competition at a biannual event called the Maasai Olympics

The Independent UK

At Kenya’s Maasai Olympics, warriors swap lion hunt for high jump

The number of lions in Kenya has plummeted from about 30,000 in the 1970s to little more than 2,000 today.

Al Jazeera

Kenya's Maasai warriors gather to celebrate "Maasai Olympics," a rite of passage

Hundreds of youths from the Maasai pastoralists in Kenya gathered on Saturday at a wildlife sanctuary to participate in "Maasai Olympics," a ceremony promoted by conservationists as an alternative rite of passage for young men in the community.

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The Independent UK

British man who went missing in Kenya found in pub after four days

Nelson Newberry had last been seen at a shopping centre where he had gone to get a SIM replacement

Evening Standard

Prince William pays tribute to friend Mark Jenkins after plane tragedy in Kenya

Mark Jenkins and his son Peter die in crash in East Africa

The Independent UK

William pays tribute to conservation friend and son who died in Kenya

The royal said Mark Jenkins and his son Peter were tragically killed while flying over Tsavo National Park.

Reuters

Pakistani journalist's killing in Kenya a pre-meditated murder -report

A team set up by the Pakistani government to probe the killing of a well-known Pakistani journalist in Nairobi said it found several contradictions in the version given by Kenyan authorities, and believes it was a case of pre-meditated murder.

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Daily Mirror

Boy, 4, survives for six days on own in wilderness after wandering 11 miles from home

The unnamed boy somehow managed to wander over 11 miles from his home in Asa, which is close to the edge of the Tsavo East wildlife preserve in Kenya

Tribune News Service

At international conference, Dobbs dominates debate

PATTAYA, Thailand — For years, the biennial International Conference on Family Planning has mostly shied away from focusing on abortion.

The Independent UK

Officials talk biodiversity as drought stunts Kenya wildlife

In Kenya’s sweltering northern Samburu county, a destructive drought exacerbated by climate change and degraded barren lands are wreaking havoc on people and wildlife

Al Jazeera

Killing of Pakistani journalist Sharif in Kenya ‘planned’: Report

Pakistani investigators say veteran journalist Arshad Sharif’s killing was a ‘planned assassination’.

Roll Call

At international conference, Dobbs dominates debate - Roll Call

A Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade has spurred nations around the world to evaluate their own policies on abortion rights.

The Independent UK

Arshad Sharif: Killing of outspoken Pakistani journalist in Kenya was planned, report claims

Pakistani investigators say the killing in Kenya of outspoken Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was a “planned assassination”

The Independent UK

Report: Killing of Pakistani journalist in Kenya ‘planned’

Pakistani investigators say the killing in Kenya of outspoken Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was a “planned assassination.”

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