Tag: Kenya

Wait for Kenya election result tests people’s patience

ELDORET, Aug 12 – At an intersection in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret, two groups of men stand on opposite street corners, gathered around newspaper stands, and whooping and gesturing at results so far from Tuesday’s election. In the presidential vote, both groups have something to cheer […]

‘God have mercy’: Tigray residents describe life under siege

NAIROBI, Kenya — As food and the means to buy it dwindled in a city under siege, the young mother felt she could do no more. She killed herself, unable to feed her children. In a Catholic church across town, flour and oil to make communion wafers will […]

From ‘role models’ to sex workers: Kenya’s child labor rises

NAIROBI, Kenya — The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or how many of those men used protection. Painfully, they recall times when they were sexually assaulted and then beaten up when […]

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