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

Language matters, in my view, so it is important to focus the attention on femicide, which is what triggered recent public conversation in Kenya and is the primary ... An initial increase in cases ...

following a spike in femicide cases last month. A few weeks ago, the National Police Service revealed a staggering statistic about the rate of femicide in Kenya. It was revealed that 97 women had ...

This is far from an isolated case - Kenya has one of the highest rates of femicide, or killings with ... hundreds of women protesting against a recent wave of femicides took to the streets of ...

STORY: A surge in violence against women in Kenya has spurred many to learn to fight back.At least 97 women across Kenya were killed in femicides between August and October of last year, according to ...

NAIROBI—Last September, Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei lost her life in Kenya at the hands of an intimate partner.

Azimio leader Raila Odinga. [File, Standard] Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga has condemned the recent surge in femicide cases in Kenya, saying it is now a 'national emergency.' Odinga on ...

From the young woman brutally murdered and dismembered in a short-term rental apartment to the Olympic runner set on fire by her estranged boyfriend, a surge in violence against women in Kenya has ...

Michelle Lemuya Ikeny stars in Nawi, a film that depicts the reality of child marriage in rural Kenya. This is the latest in a series of shocking cases of femicide in Kenya. Libya and Somalia are ...

More than 500 cases of femicide were recorded in Kenya between 2016 and 2023 ... The Telegraph, The New Statesman, Tortoise Media and Metro, as well as appearing on BBC Radio London, Times ...

Language matters, in my view, so it is important to focus the attention on femicide, which is what triggered recent public conversation in Kenya and ... increase in cases might not indicate ...