The march was repeatedly dispersed by tear gas, with one 22-year-old woman also telling AFP that officers appeared to be targeting women wearing t-shirts with anti-femicide slogans for arrest.

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

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

including Amnesty International Kenya Executive Director Irungu Houghton, were arrested in Nairobi after police teargassed them during an anti-femicide march. The protest on Tuesday, December 12 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya’s capital hurled tear gas canisters Tuesday at hundreds of protesters angry about gender-based violence and femicide, or the killing of women, and ...

The march was repeatedly dispersed by tear gas, with one 22-year-old woman also telling AFP that officers appeared to be targeting women wearing t-shirts with anti-femicide slogans for arrest.

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 ... a peaceful march in Nairobi held during ...

Advertisement There has been a series of anti-femicide protests in Kenya and on Nov. 25 during the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, police used tear gas to disperse ...