Where the foothills of Mount Kenya merge into the desert, the people of Samburu have maintained a strict patriarchy for over ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan government on Thursday declared gender-based violence the nation's most pressing security threat, with 100 women killed in the past four months alone, most of them by ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — It started with a casual lunch conversation between a county governor and his cabinet ministers about a colleague’s menstrual pain. The discussion led to a first in Kenya: The ...

Repeated attempts by Kenya’s Treasury to expand KRA’s enforcement powers have again been blocked by MPs, reflecting ongoing tensions between aggressive revenue collection and taxpayer rights. Kenya’s ...

On the outskirts of the coastal Kenyan city of Mombasa, a women’s organization in Jomvu Creek aims to transform livelihoods and the environment through mud crab farming. A blue economy grant is ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. Elizabeth Otieno Ayuma has been ...

The police said that nine mutilated and dismembered bodies had been discovered, and that the suspect had confessed, only the latest violence against women in a rising tide of it in the East African ...

Research shows that globally, women and girls suffer greater effects of climate change and environmental disasters than men; at the same time, women environmental journalists often face greater ...

Churches often encourage intense emotional outpourings during prayer to overcome life’s traumas. Getty Images As a scholar and researcher of Pentecostalism, I attended a monthly church gathering, ...

Kenya’s “Boda Girls” are turning a male-dominated industry upside down. Their favored customers are pregnant women needing rides to the hospital. Kenya’s “Boda Girls” are turning a male-dominated ...

Womenentrepreneurs are receiving a small share of business credit despite playing agrowing role in Kenya's economy, as persistent financing barriers that continueto limit the expansion of female-led ...