TUKO.co.ke shares a list of five Kenyan women who have been killed in the first 22 days of January 2025 in a shocking wave of violence that has shocked the nation.

2024 saw a marked increase in women being murdered in Kenya despite a heightened awareness of the crisis and government measures to curb what the World Health Organization terms as femicide.

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According to recent data from Africa Data Hub and data science company Odipo Dev, there have been at least 500 women killed in acts of femicide in Kenya between January 2016 and December 2023.

Almost 100 women have been killed in the span of three months, the police say. Rights groups want President William Ruto to declare femicide a national crisis.

Across the protests, women in Kenya are calling for action including the establishment of “femicide” as a separate crime - and a crime that is to trigger higher punishment.

Kenya has recorded 7,107 sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) cases since September 2023, with at least 100 women killed between August and November 2024. Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia ...

At least 97 women across Kenya were killed in femicides - intentional killings with a gender-related motivation - between August and October of last year, according to police figures.

DOHS Cares Foundation is sounding the alarm on an urgent national tragedy: 88 Nigerian women have been killed between January and June 2025 ... “This is not a crisis we can afford to normalize or ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan government on Thursday declared gender-based violence the nation's most pressing security threat, with 100 women killed in the past four months alone, most of ...