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Journalist. AMEA 2026 Best Follow-Up Reporting Award Winner. I write and tweet on #development #environment #climate change #health #water #human rights
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Kenya's purple shoots of progress | The Africa Report.com

Kenya's purple shoots of progress | The Africa Report.com

The Africa Report — As a drought wreaks havoc on agricultural output across the country, Kenya is trying to boost production of drought-resistant crops like purple tea.
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Climate change adaptation: Kenya goes local with a bottom-up approach

Climate change adaptation: Kenya goes local with a bottom-up approach

thenewhumanitarian.org — The daily weather forecast text messages were a modest intervention - a drop in the ocean of global climate finance - yet they made the difference between profit and loss for a group of businesswomen in southeast Kenya's Makueni County.
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In Kenya, a stagnating fight against malaria calls for new strategies

In Kenya, a stagnating fight against malaria calls for new strategies

thenewhumanitarian.org — Kenya seemed to be on track to win the fight against malaria. It distributed millions of insecticide-treated bed nets. It fumigated countless homes. It made drugs and diagnostic testing cheap and available. For several years, it was also rewarded with a fall in malaria cases. But now progress has stalled.
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A quest for refugee integration in Kenya

A quest for refugee integration in Kenya

Devex — KALOBEYEI SETTLEMENT, Kenya - Andrew Ngiro, a driver working in Kakuma Refugee Camp, knows all the roads inside the 27-year old settlement. Five days a week, he drives the dusty, rugged tracks that crisscross the camps like a maze, lined on both sides by tin-walled housing or the invasive mesquite plant.
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For the famed chimps of Gombe, human encroachment takes a toll

For the famed chimps of Gombe, human encroachment takes a toll

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In Kenya's Largest Slum, the World Bank Battles Cartels for Control of Electricity

In Kenya's Largest Slum, the World Bank Battles Cartels for Control of Electricity

pulitzercenter.org — Part 2 of the six-part "Failed Aid: What Went Wrong?" series, which investigates citizen reports on failed or unfinished aid projects in Africa.
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Information Gaps Drive Mistrust in Cash Transfer Programs

Information Gaps Drive Mistrust in Cash Transfer Programs

pulitzercenter.org — Part 3 of the six-part "Failed Aid: What Went Wrong?" series, which investigates citizen reports on failed or unfinished aid projects in Africa.
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When public restrooms fail, rent them out as churches?

When public restrooms fail, rent them out as churches?

Devex — In Nairobi's Kibera slum, a public restroom project was supposed to improve sanitation. When it failed, entrepreneurial residents found other uses. This is part of our six-piece Failed Aid series, which investigates citizen reports on failed or unfinished aid projects in Africa.
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No answer: Kenya's gender-based violence hotline fails to connect

No answer: Kenya's gender-based violence hotline fails to connect

Devex — Devex attempted to call the toll-free hotline six days in a row. For the first five days, the calls could not be completed. This is part of our six-piece Failed Aid series, which investigates citizen reports on failed or unfinished aid projects in Africa.
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Nutrition supplements, but no one to distribute them

Nutrition supplements, but no one to distribute them

Devex — In northeast Kenya, security threats have undermined nutrition supplement deliveries - and left mothers wondering when the next shipment will arrive. This is part of our six-piece Failed Aid series, which investigates citizen reports on failed or unfinished aid projects in Africa.
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Kenya: The Sengwer Have a Plan to Protect the Embobut Forest and Their Way of Life | Earth First!...

Kenya: The Sengwer Have a Plan to Protect the Embobut Forest and Their Way of Life | Earth First!...

Earth First! Journal — The Sengwer are now attempting a new solution to both conserve the forest and preserve their way of life. They are preparing to take their petition international, to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights in Arusha, Tanzania.
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Meet the Small Fishing Community Regrowing Coral Reefs in Kenya

Meet the Small Fishing Community Regrowing Coral Reefs in Kenya

News Deeply — As fishers on Wasini Island began seeing the effects of coral ecosystem degradation, including declining catches, they revived an age-old tradition of conservation to replant and protect their reef. WASINI ISLAND, Kenya - Fishing has always been the way of life on this tiny strip of land off the shores of southeast Kenya.
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New app helps Kenyan herders cut drought risks

New app helps Kenyan herders cut drought risks

Christian Science Monitor — During times of drought, herder Buchu Boru has to walk many miles in search of pasture for his animals - with no guarantee he will find it. "Somebody tells you by word of mouth that there is pasture but on arriving you don't [find] any," said the herder, who has had to walk from his home all the way across the Ethiopian border to find grass some years.
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Kenya: Refugees - and Forests - Benefit as Herders Torch an Invader

Kenya: Refugees - and Forests - Benefit as Herders Torch an Invader

AllAfrica — Kakuma - Can charcoal made from pest thorn trees help keep refugees warm and fed? Turkana County is one of Kenya's most arid regions, but land near the town of Kakuma sports a dense thicket of thorny trees. That's not good news.
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Refugees - and forests - benefit as Kenya's herders torch an invader

Refugees - and forests - benefit as Kenya's herders torch an invader

Thomson Reuters Foundation — Can charcoal made from pest thorn trees help keep refugees warm and fed? By Anthony Langat KAKUMA, Kenya, Oct 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Turkana County is one of Kenya's most arid regions, but land near the town of Kakuma sports a dense thicket of thorny trees. That's not good news.
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In Kenya's Baringo county, police raid, burn and murder

In Kenya's Baringo county, police raid, burn and murder

Al Jazeera — Chemolingot, Kenya - One May afternoon along a dirt road in a remote swath of Kenya's Baringo County lay the remains of an elderly man. Wild animals had eaten his flesh, torn off some of his limbs, and dragged his body - now mostly bones.
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Loans for solar systems make power affordable in rural Kenya

Loans for solar systems make power affordable in rural Kenya

Daily Mail — By Anthony Langat NAIVASHA, Kenya, Aug 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It is early evening in Ndabibi village in Naivasha, and there are threatening clouds overhead. Kenneth Njoroge quickly parks his motorcyle by the mud structure that serves as his kitchen and rushes into the main house before the rain starts pounding.
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Community networks bring education online in Kibera, Kenya

Community networks bring education online in Kibera, Kenya

Devex — Locally run and managed intranet connections could provide access to poor or remote communities in Africa. Advocates hope a new initiative in Nairobi's Kibera slum could pave the way for greater use of the technology in Kenya and the region.
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Kenya's Drought Sparks Violence - and Green Farming

Kenya's Drought Sparks Violence - and Green Farming

U.S. News & World Report — As drought kills Kenya's livestock, some herders are fighting hunger by growing their own grass.
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FEATURE-For women in Kenya's dry north, water is power

FEATURE-For women in Kenya's dry north, water is power

Thomson Reuters Foundation — A new way of funding climate change projects at the local level is giving women more say over the use of precious resources By Anthony Langat WAJIR, Kenya, June 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting a couple of kilometres outside the village of Wajir-bor in northeast Kenya is something quite rare for these dry parts: a small, well-maintained reservoir full of water with a watchman standing guard at the gate.
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"We must prevent Kenyan migrants from being slaves rather than workers"

"We must prevent Kenyan migrants from being slaves rather than workers"

equaltimes.org — In September 2014, Rose Mike had just completed high school and was looking for a job in her hometown of Nakuru in Kenya's Rift Valley region. When she was approached by a recruiter about the possibility of a well-paid job abroad she was skeptical at first.
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Drought insurance helps some Kenyan herders, others wait for aid

Drought insurance helps some Kenyan herders, others wait for aid

DNA India — Drought insurance helps some Kenyan herders, others wait for aid - By Anthony Langat GARISSA, Kenya, Feb 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Along a dusty road between the northern Kenyan town of Garissa and the village of Kasha, the carcasses of dozens of cows and goats lie rotting in the heat.
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'They speak against it by day and cut girls at night': fighting FGM in southern Kenya | Anthony L...

'They speak against it by day and cut girls at night': fighting FGM in southern Kenya | Anthony L...

The Guardian — When Rampei Wuantai and his wife, Angela, decided not to make their daughters undergo female genital mutilation, they were not prepared for the backlash. The family live on a small homestead surrounding by acacia trees in the village of Illmotiok, in Kenya's Kajiado county. Though outlawed in 2011, FGM is still widely practised in the area.
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