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Marathon champ recalls Kenyan election terror: ‘We narrowly escaped death’
Five years since Kenya’s world marathon champion Luke Kibet narrowly escaped death in post-election violence that killed two of his colleagues, the runner is nervous as fresh polls approach. More than 1,100 people — including two international athletes — were killed in the chaos and ethnic violence that followed Kenya’s…
Kenyan election bloggers become cyber-activism pioneers
Five years ago, a handful of bloggers invented a way to track — and hopefully prevent — bloody post-election violence that hit Kenya and claimed more than 1,100 lives. The group of friends that set up Ushahidi — which means “to witness” in Kenya’s Swahili language — have seen their…
Poachers slaughter 11-member Kenyan elephant family
Kenyan wildlife rangers on Tuesday were tracking a team of poachers who massacred a family of 11 elephants in what they said was the worst single such killings in the country in the past three decades. “We have not lost as many elephants in a single incident since the early…
Mass grave found in Kenya’s troubled Tana River region
NAIROBI — A mass grave was discovered on Monday in Kenya’s Tana River region which has been rocked by three weeks of fighting between the Pokomo and Orma ethnic groups, police said. More than 100 people had so far been reported killed since the latest round of violence erupted in…
Kenyan Muslims team up to protect Christians
A group of Muslim leaders in Kenya has agreed to help their Christian countrymen defend their churches, after a rash of attacks that killed 15 Christians, according to the BBC. “Muslims felt that because those Christians are a minority in their domain they must be protected at all cost,” said…
Double leg amputee scales Mount Kilimanjaro
A double leg amputee has pulled himself up Africa’s highest mountain, disproving doctors who said he would never be a functioning member of society.” Spencer West, 31, lost his legs as a child after a genetic disorder — sacral agenesis — paralyzed the lower half of his body. But he…
U.S. warns of imminent attack in Mombasa, Kenya
The US embassy in Kenya on Saturday warned of the threat of an imminent attack on Mombasa and urged nationals to shun the country’s second city. “This is to alert all US citizens in Kenya, or planning to travel to Kenya in the near future, that the US Embassy in…
Kenya to open Africa’s first underwater museum
Kenya is on the brink of building Africa’s first underwater museum, which will be dedicated to studying marine life and shipwrecks. Designs of the proposed museum, which is expected to be open in 2014, have already begun with the help of US architects and a budget for construction costs is…
Kenya arrests controversial Muslim preacher
MOMBASA, Kenya — Kenyan police Sunday arrested a Muslim preacher who had been previously arrested but acquitted of the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel near Mombasa which killed 15 people. Aboud Rogo Mohammed, a cleric in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa since 1997, was arrested in a raid in…
Do the math
Check out this short video on the impact of the ban on most abortions in Kenya: In Harm’s Way: Unsafe Abortion in Kenya from Center for Reproductive Rights on Vimeo. Even when you build “exceptions” into abortion bans, they usually don’t do much for people who technically qualify. Lack of…
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