Kenya

Kenyan Clinic Rejects Trump Abortion Policy, Loses $2 Million In U.S. Aid

4:08pm May 02, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

The president has banned U.S. aid to any health organization in another country that performs or promotes abortion. Kenya's oldest provider of reproductive health services has already lost funding.

Rothschild's giraffe at Lake Nakuru, Great Rift Valley, Kenya. A community project at Kenya's Lake Baringo is attempting to save the subspecies.

'A Silent Extinction': Finding Peace And Saving Giraffes On A Lake In Kenya

4:39pm April 29, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

Nearly 40 percent of giraffes were wiped out in one generation. Now, Kenyan conservation efforts are helping to bring them back.

Consolata Aganga goes door-to-door as a community health worker, a demanding volunteer job. "It is God who gives me the strength," she says. She is also a small-scale farmer, growing vegetables for her family.

Health & Safety

The Blessed Burden Of Consolata Agunga

2:40pm April 19, 2018

by Marc Silver

She is a community health worker in Kenya. She is paid next to nothing. It's a tough job. And she loves it.

Extreme lack of attention is not unusual in hospitals in poor countries, says Martin Onyango, legal advisor for the Center for Reproductive Rights based in Nairobi.

Kenyan Woman Abused By Nurses During Childbirth Wins Landmark Case

3:06pm April 10, 2018

by Susan Brink

Josephine Majani passed out searching for help as she delivered her baby on a the floor of a hospital in Kenya. She hopes her case will push for reforms in treatment of women during childbirth.

Woman's Instagram Post About Kenyan Child Ignites Fury

1:57pm March 22, 2018

by Malaka Gharib

In the post, since deleted, the woman wrote: "One of the happiest moments in your life was probably when you met me and my friends," she wrote.

Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, grazes at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in May 2017. The 45-year-old rhino's health started deteriorating in late February.

Sudan, World's Last Male Northern White Rhino, Dies

9:27pm March 20, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

Sudan lived most of his life in a zoo in the Czech Republic but was brought to a conservancy in Kenya in 2009 as part of a last-ditch effort to save his species. He died at the conservancy at age 45.

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Assortment of Early and Middle Stone Age tools found in the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya. The tool at left is a hand axe.

Scientists Are Amazed By Stone Age Tools They Dug Up In Kenya

5:41pm March 15, 2018

by Rhitu Chatterjee

The discovery suggests an earlier start to the Middle Stone Age in Africa than previously documented. It also offers clues to early social networks and symbolic art by human ancestors.

Lawyers for the opposition politician Miguna Miguna wait for a hearing to begin at Kenya's High Court in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday.

World News

Inside A Kenyan Courtroom, A Deepening Political Crisis Is On Display

2:26pm February 07, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

Since the opposition leader declared himself president a week ago, the Kenyan government has essentially suspended constitutional order, ignoring rulings from a powerful court.

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Bradley Martin is seen here in 1993 inspecting confiscated rhino horns, elephant tusks and ivory objects at the Taipei Zoo, in his role as a United Nations special envoy on rhino conservation.

Prominent Ivory Trade Investigator Found Stabbed To Death In Kenya

2:51pm February 05, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Esmond Bradley Martin's innovative work as a conservationist and investigator made him one of the global authorities on elephant and rhino poaching. He was found at home with stab wounds to his neck.

Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga holds up a Bible as he swears himself in as the "people's president" on Tuesday in Nairobi. Authorities shut the top three independent TV channels ahead of the event. They remain closed.

World News

As Government Ignores Court Order, Kenya's Media Blackout Goes Into 4th Day

5:34pm February 02, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

The government shut off three news stations to prevent coverage of the opposition leader declaring himself president. Press freedom advocates worry it represents a slide toward authoritarianism.

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