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.

Femicide in Kenya: What’s causing an ... 2 weeks into 2024, headlines tell of women killed by men close to them. The cases only scratch the surface, countless deaths go unrecognized. This Friday ...

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.

Protesters march in the streets of Nairobi on Saturday, Jan. 27, to demand an end to femicide in Kenya. ... more than 500 women were killed in Kenya between 2016 and 2023.

In Iten, a small town where stars like 1,500m runner Faith Kipyegon once trained, two gruesome killings draw attention to the status of women in Kenya and the culture of silence keeping them in ...

These three women were among hundreds of women and girls killed in Kenya in recent years. The September 2024 protests are not a new occurrence. Among others, in January 2024, women In Kenya ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Thousands of people marched in cities and towns in Kenya during protests Saturday over the recent slayings of more than a dozen women. The anti-femicide demonstration was the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan government on Dec. 19 declared gender-based violence the nation’s most pressing security threat, with 100 women killed in the past four months alone, most of ...

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.

NAIROBI, Kenya — The Kenyan government has declared gender-based violence the nation’s most pressing security threat, with 100 women killed in the last four months alone, most by men who were ...