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#JusticeForSheila highlights the precarious lives of queer people in Kenya

Kenya is one of 32 countries in Africa that criminalise homosexuality. People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) are frequently stigmatised, shamed and assaulted. The hashtags calling for action against the murder of queer people – like the most recent #JusticeForSheila – continue to trend on…

The Conversation

Kenyan 'Cartooning for Peace' plan aims to draw Africa towards democracy

A group of cartoonists from around the world assembled for the Cartooning for Peace initiative in Nairobi, Kenya, this month to raise awareness of the power of press cartoons in promoting democracy on the African continent.

Radio France Internationale

S2,EP 18: Nigeria's fuel hikes, Nairobi tackles rabies, & Sudan fishermen affected by climate change

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent with our African correspondents. In Nigeria, an unstable power supply and fuel hikes due to the Ukraine war has businesses struggling to cope; Nairobi is tackling rabies by ensuring dogs are vaccinated, and in Sudan,…

Radio France Internationale

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Facebook sued in Kenya over work conditions for moderators

Attorneys for a man who once worked as a content moderator for Facebook have filed a lawsuit accusing the company of exploitative and unsafe working conditions

The Independent UK

The Kenyan mothers fighting to end police brutality

Mothers whose sons were killed by police have united to fight for justice and protect other young men.

Al Jazeera

Google Shares Its African Product Development Center Debut Plans

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google invested in its Africa product development center debut in Nairobi, looking to host 800 million internet users and a third of the world's youth population by 2030. Its peer, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT), also invested in technology development hubs in Kenya and Nigeria, pumping $100 million and hiring hundreds of engineers…

Benzinga

A day in the life of a worker at Dandora, Nairobi's main dumping ground

Kenyan Sharon Atieno, 23, considers herself a busy woman. She believes in the saying 'the early bird catches the worm', and every day she leaves her Nairobi home at the crack of dawn to go to work. She is one of the waste collectors at the expansive Dandora dumping site…

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S2,EP16: Kenya's waste-pickers, Cameroon's rising prices, and Uganda's antibiotic problem

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent with our African correspondents. In Kenya, waste-pickers in Nairobi are worried about their livelihoods as politicians discuss a new dump site; Ugandan consumers are misusing antibiotics, which has had a knock-on effect for the country…

Radio France Internationale

Projects like Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway can unlock development

Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway, which links Nairobi and Mombasa, East Africa’s largest port, was built to ease the pressure on the road network. Construction started in 2013 and was completed in 2017, with an extension in 2019. The line transports passengers as well as cargo. It makes the trip between…

The Conversation

The Kenyan company turning trash into cash

Finding a gap in the industry, Kenyan entrepreneurs Mohamud Omari and Rashid Omari founded a Kenyan-made pencil company, manufacturing hundreds of thousands of pencils every year from recycled newspaper at their factory in Nairobi.

Radio France Internationale

Six people killed in suspected bomb blast in Goma, DR Congo

In this edition of Eye on Africa, we go to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where six people have died following an explosion in a military camp in Goma. Meanwhile, the DRC's president travels to Nairobi to sign his country’s treaty of accession to the East Africa Community. And we…

France 24

Abortion in Spain: Despite being legal, many doctors refuse to perform them

Abortion is legal in Spain yet a number of doctors in the public system still refuse to carry out the procedure, calling themselves "conscientious objectors." Their stance forcing women to use private clinics. We also head to Kibera in the Kenyan city of Nairobi which is Africa's largest urban slum;…

France 24

A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater

Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people

The Guardian - UK

Ashun Wu rides dynamic short game to comfortable win at DP World Tour’s Magical Kenya Open

After the round, Wu was greeted by his wife and young daughter, both of whom made the trip to Nairobi.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

UN, Cairo Discuss Preparations for COP27 Climate Conference

Egypt’s Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad met on Thursday with Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group Amina Mohamed to discuss Egypt’s preparations to host the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh in November. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the…

Radio France Internationale

Global and grassroots come together as landmark plastics agreement signed in Nairobi

Tired of the poor improper plastic waste disposal in Nairobi, Kenya, Nzambi Matee, 29, took it upon herself to solve one of the world’s biggest environmental concerns by changing the world - one brick at a time.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN to Take First Step towards 'Historic' Plastic Treaty

The United Nations is to launch formal negotiations on Wednesday for a global treaty to address a plastic trash "epidemic" that supporters say is a historic moment for the planet. The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), convening in Nairobi, is poised to adopt a resolution creating an intergovernmental committee to negotiate…

The Conversation

Kenya and Zimbabwe have been suspended from world football: what happens next

Kenya and Zimbabwe have both been suspended by the world’s football governing body, FIFA, owing to government interference in the operations of the national football federations. Nairobi and Harare dissolved their federations late last year and replaced them with government-appointed officials. The suspension, overshadowed for now by Russia’s dramatic banishment…

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UN environment meeting in Kenya: a chance to finally act?

The United Nations Environment Assembly is gathering for three days in Kenya’s capital to find holistic solutions to today’s environmental threats. The fight against plastic pollution is one of the key topics to be tabled with the hope governments will agree on a legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution.

Radio France Internationale

Good hair day: Nairobi stylist's wigs lift morale of breast cancer patients

Hair stylist Diana Aketch felt helpless. She wanted to help a friend who was battling breast cancer but didn’t know how.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN to Agree on Plan for 'Historic' Plastics Treaty

More than 100 nations convening in Nairobi next week are expected to take the first steps toward establishing a historic global treaty to tackle the plastic crisis afflicting the planet. Plastic has been found in Arctic sea ice, the bellies of whales and Earth's atmosphere, and governments have been under…

Bangkok Post

'Historic’ global plastics treaty in pipeline

More than 100 countries will gather in Nairobi next week to take the first steps toward establishing a historic global treaty to tackle the plastic crisis afflicting the planet.

The Guardian - UK

Plastic summit could be most important green deal since Paris accords, says UN

World leaders to gather in Nairobi next week to discuss first global treaty to combat plastic waste

Asharq Al-Awsat

75% of People Want Single-Use Plastics Banned, Global Survey Finds

Three in four people worldwide want single-use plastics to be banned as soon as possible, according to a poll released on Tuesday, as United Nations members prepare to begin talks on a global treaty to rein in soaring plastic pollution. The percentage of people calling for bans is up from…

The Conversation

Twitter in Kenya's last poll: a great way to reach voters, but not a game-changer

Kenyans will head to the polls in August this year for what is expected to be a hotly contested presidential election. Opposition leader Raila Odinga is running for the fifth time, but on this occasion with the support of his former rival, President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is ineligible to stand…

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