Reports

By Siddharth Chatterjee NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 16 2020 (IPS) - The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has jumped to three after the government confirmed two more cases. President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced a raft of proactive…

By Miriam Gathigah NAIROBI, Mar 6 2020 (IPS) - Pokot girls are expected to face the knife stark naked and with courage. To inspire confidence, their fathers sit a few metres away from them with a spear…

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 28 2020- From 26 February to 28 February 2020, the United Nations in Kenya supported a joint visit to the Frontier Counties of Kenya. The objective of this mission was to allow delegates from…

By Nout van der Vaart Rotterdam/The Hague, Dec 9 2019 (IPS) - People have a right to define their own food system. This includes which seeds they use. Last week, farmers in Nakuru County, Kenya, celebrated the…

By Miriam Gathigah NAIROBI, Oct 3 2019 (IPS) - Six years ago Mary Njambi* received news of a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity far away from her poverty-stricken village situated in the heart of Kiambu County, Central Kenya. She…

By Sharon Birch-Jeffrey, Africa Renewal NAIROBI, Aug 14 2019 (IPS) - For many people, climate change is about shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels, longer and more intense heatwaves, and other extreme and unpredictable weather patterns. But…

By Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI, Jul 18 2019 (IPS) - Kenya’s getting hotter. Much hotter than the 1.5˚C increase that has been deemed acceptable by global leaders, and it is too hot for livestock, wildlife and plants to…

By Johan Borgstam, Stefano A. Dejak, Aeneas Chuma and Siddharth Chatterjee NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 29 2019 (IPS) - Many years of internecine conflict is being replaced by a new narrative of peace along the Kenya-Ethiopia border. Communities…

By Siddharth Chatterjee Siddharth Chatterjee is the United Nations Resident Coordinator to Kenya. NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 16 2019 (IPS) - On 15 January 2019, terror struck Nairobi’s 14 Riverside Drive. Kenya is in mourning following a senseless act on…

By Sicily Kariuki and Siddharth Chatterjee Sicily Kariuki is the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Health in Kenya. Siddharth Chatterjee is the United Nations Resident Coordinator to Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 18 2018 (IPS) - According to Director-General of…