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Rights groups demand action as 1,073 teenage pregnancies recorded in Lamu since 2024
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jun 06, 2025

This is not the first time the alarm has been raised. In 2024, both KHRC and MUHURI urged the government to act, citing earlier findings by the Kenya...

Land wrangles behind Ang'ata Barikoi violence, PS Nixon Korir tells MPs
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jun 06, 2025

He said the land was officially registered under the Ang'ata Barikoi Farmers’ Cooperative Society on September 18, 1996. However, the society has nev...

Cooperative clean-up: Oparanya targets non-compliant societies in major sector reforms
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 05, 2025

CS Oparanya directed that all cooperative societies, including unions, national cooperative organisations, and apex cooperatives, must file their annu...

Human rights groups condemn government inaction as teenage pregnancies surge in Lamu
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Jun 05, 2025

MUHURI noted that many of these pregnancies stemmed from rape, defilement, and early marriages, indicating widespread violations of girls’ rights.

Okoa Uchumi slams Ruto’s apology, demands justice for violence, graft, economic injustice
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 29, 2025

Okoa Uchumi said Ruto’s remarks amounted to a performative gesture that failed to acknowledge the government’s role in the deaths of over 60 young peo...

Parklands construction workers stage protest, accuse residents’ association of harassment
Abdirahman Khalif  |  May 29, 2025

The workers, who marched through the area singing protest songs, said they had grown frustrated by what they described as targeted efforts to shut dow...

Severe funding cuts force sharp scale-back of humanitarian aid in Somalia, threatening millions
Abdirahman Khalif  |  May 27, 2025

One of the hardest-hit organisations is Save the Children, which plays a vital role in delivering health and nutrition services to children across the...

Recruitment of new TSC boss halted after court injunction
Carolyne Kubwa  |  May 27, 2025

In the petition, Oyugi has argued that the entire process was rigged with constitutional violations as well as discriminatory criteria.

Music, power and politics: Gachagua-Kindiki clash exposes battle for Mt Kenya’s cultural influence
Barack Oduor  |  May 26, 2025

During the meeting with Kindiki, musicians praised the success of the Social Health Insurance Fund, but Gachagua condemned their actions as a betrayal...

Kenya launches panel to review health benefit tariffs, promote equity and cost-effective care
Charity Kilei  |  May 26, 2025

The committee will conduct thorough reviews, analyse Kenya’s disease burden, and provide expert recommendations to inform policy decisions grounded in...

Inside Kenya’s battle against fake and unsafe medicines
Charity Kilei  |  May 24, 2025

The increasing demand for affordable medication has put many Kenyans at risk of unknowingly consuming fake drugs.

LSK, auditors reject key privacy and liability clauses in Finance Bill 2025
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 24, 2025

Another contested aspect is clause 50b, which proposes extending the timeline for processing tax overpayment claims, from 90 to 120 days for initial c...

Tortured and left to crawl- activist Boniface Mwangi narrates his ordeal in Tanzania
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 23, 2025

He said any effort to speak to each other during that night was met with kicks and insults. The two were later taken from the torture location in diff...

Civil society groups give AU, EAC 72 hours to act on alleged abductions, torture in Tanzania
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 23, 2025

While Tanzania released Mwangi on Thursday, he was dumped in Horohoro, on the Coast of Kenya, some 162 kilometres from the Lunga Lunga border, having...

Sh876bn fiscal deficit leaves no room for extra spending in 2025/26 budget, MPs warn
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 22, 2025

BAC Chairperson Samuel Atandi announced this as the committee began receiving reports from departmental committee chairpersons on the scrutiny of budg...

Rogue recruitment agencies to refund job seekers or face legal action, says Labour ministry
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 22, 2025

The PS urged job seekers to verify recruitment agencies through official government channels, specifically pointing them to the National Employment Au...

Senate alarmed as children among 1.4 million unintended pregnancies
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 22, 2025

The alarming figures showed that 35 per cent of women who fell pregnant reported having used contraceptives, raising fears about the quality and relia...

MUHURI demands answers on alleged transfer of public seal from Attorney General's office
Joseph Ndunda  |  May 22, 2025

Khelef wants to establish whether the requisite public participation was conducted in line with the inclusivity, good governance, integrity, transpare...

Havi challenges advocates disciplinary tribunal’s verdict on his misconduct in High Court
Carolyne Kubwa  |  May 21, 2025

The tribunal had found Havi guilty of professional misconduct after he allegedly published defamatory remarks directed at fellow lawyer Allen Gichuhi.

Over 5,000 teacher promotions, zero merit? MPs turn up the heat on TSC
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 21, 2025

MPs accused the commission of favouring regions associated with its top officials, leaving out thousands of teachers who have served for years without...

Mudavadi confirms Boniface Mwangi is still in custody in Tanzania, disputes deportation claims
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 20, 2025

When Mudavadi was asked what Tanzanian authorities had told Kenya about the reasons for Mwangi’s detention, Mudavadi noted that no detailed explanatio...

Family says Boniface Mwangi has not returned to Kenya despite deportation claims
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 20, 2025

A close relative told the Eastleigh Voice that the family has not had any contact from Mwangi, who was arrested on Monday at the Serena Hotel in the T...

Humanitarian aid in Somalia reaches only 24pc of target amid severe funding shortfall
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 18, 2025

Almost half of Somalia’s people, 47 per cent, are still affected by repeated floods, droughts, conflict, disease, and displacement, all of which disru...

Task force begins stakeholder talks for global human origins museum in Turkana
Issa Hussein  |  May 17, 2025

Richard Barno, who is leading the task force, said the project seeks to transform the region by harnessing its rich cultural and palaeontological heri...

Law students caught in crossfire of policy conflicts, budget cuts
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 15, 2025

At the centre of the storm is the Advocates Training Programme (ATP), the final step required to qualify as a lawyer in Kenya.

How climate change fuels rise in gender-based violence in Garissa
Issa Hussein  |  May 15, 2025

The civil society group also blamed the region's nomadic herding practices for escalating sexual abuse among young girls who should otherwise be in sc...

Amnesty urges action as report exposes abuse of Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia
Bashir Mbuthia  |  May 12, 2025

Recruitment agencies commonly mislead them about the nature of the jobs, only for them to arrive in Saudi Arabia to a far grimmer reality.

Power struggle rocks MCSK as rival factions clash over CEO Ezekiel Mutua’s ouster
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 09, 2025

Signed by MCSK National Chairman Ephantus Wahome Kamau, the rebuttal stated that Mutua remained the legitimate CEO, and dismissed the earlier claim as...

Over 343,000 trained teachers remain jobless despite TSC registration
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 08, 2025

CS Ogamba said the crisis stems from limited budgetary allocations and uneven teacher distribution across counties.

Nairobi leads in teen pregnancies as cases drop nationally to 241,228 in 2024
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 07, 2025

Older teens aged 15 to 19 registered 231,102 cases, showing a 4.3 per cent decline. These figures offer hope that ongoing efforts to address teenage p...

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