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Why COVID school closures are making girls marry early

Harriet Grant - September 14, 2020 0

The preventable trauma of COVID childbirth

Mary Fitzgerald - August 12, 2020 0

From hunger to abuse: Seven women tell us how COVID has...

Kate Hodal and Nyasha Chingono - July 21, 2020 0

Protestors

#PoliceBrutality: ‘They have killed us more than corona’

Amanda Sperber - June 12, 2020 0

What if you could report gender-based violence at… your local supermarket?

Monica Adhiambo Onyango and Alexandra Regan - May 26, 2020 0

Crickets, beetles and moths. Eating them could help save the planet....

Ann Mikia - January 21, 2020 0

When ambulances wouldn’t respond to calls in this community, one woman...

Rod Austin - December 6, 2019 0

Domestic workers in training.

‘They see us as slaves’: Domestic helpers head for the Gulf...

Jillian Keenan and Njeri Rugene - November 11, 2019 0

Editar Ochieng leaves a chemist in Kibera having purchased termination pills. (Kate Holt, The Guardian)

“People have normalised rape… but no one talks about abortion. When...

Tracy McVeigh - August 28, 2019 0

A campaigner in Nairobi carries a coffin during a protest against the construction of a coal plant in Lamu on Kenya’s coast. (Baz Ratner, Reuters)

Kenya’s first coal plant construction paused in climate victory

Karen McVeigh - July 18, 2019 0

(Baz Ratner

This country has upheld its ban on gay sex. Here’s why...

Adriaan Van Klinken - May 28, 2019 0

In the company of women: Judia

The village where men are banned

Julie Bindel - April 2, 2019 0

Water hyacinth isn’t just good at being abundant – its foliage also contains a high ratio of carbon to nitrogen. The combination makes it ideal as a renewable gas source via bio digesters like this one.

Why the fight against this weed could pay off handsomely for...

Gilbert Nakweya - March 27, 2019 0

Young refugees at Kenya’s sprawling Dadaab refugee complex are seen during a visit from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.

How this 19-year-old fell prey to human traffickers

Moulid Hujale - February 27, 2019 0

Maasai girls participate in a newly conceived rite of passage to mark their ascent into womanhood

When police crashed her wedding, she was 8. Her soon-to-be husband...

Christabel Ligami - January 24, 2019 0

Young Maasai girls leave their village near Narok to go to school. Campaigners say addressing poverty and gender-based violence in the area is vital.

Schoolgirls in this country face compulsory tests for pregnancy, genital mutilation

Rebecca Ratcliffe - January 10, 2019 0

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