The year 2024 saw a marked increase of women being murdered in Kenya despite a heightened ... who are the most common suspects in femicide cases. Christian Daily International previously reported ...

Language matters, in my view, so it is important to focus the attention on femicide, which is what triggered recent ... and 2024. Kenya’s law enforcement agencies recorded 97 cases of femicide ...

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 ...

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 ...

Participants walk in Kisii town in solidarity with women who lost their lives to femicide as they closed ... Standard] Gender-based violence (GBV) cases in Kenya are more than the global average ...

Activists said the recent upward trend is felt ... an activist with End Femicide Kenya, told Reuters. "We have a lot of cases of domestic violence where it's not that the perpetrator is not ...

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 ...

At face value, any public action the Kenyan government takes to show that it’s listening to its citizens is important – but it’s only a first step.

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 ...