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Kenyan visitors flock to Chinese products at annual trade expo
People's Daily Online
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NAIROBI, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Braving the chilly Tuesday morning in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, George Owino and a group of friends took a leisurely stroll through the exhibition hall hosting the tenth edition of China Trade Week. The engineering...
Kenyan Police Attack Youth-led Demonstrations Against Brutality
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
At least 16 killed in protests marking the first anniversary of mass actions against tax hikes and the continuing repression by law enforcement agents. Originally published in Fighting Words. Social unrest in the East African state of Kenya...
Kenyan newspapers, July 8: Pain as Homa Bay farmhand kills boss's daughter he...
TUKO
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July 8, 2025
The newspapers locally covered an array of topics, mainly the events during the Saba Saba commemoration in Kenya on Monday, July 7. Front pages for Daily Nation and Taifa Leo newspapers on Tuesday, July 8. Photos: Screengrabs from Daily Nation anf...
Kenya marks highest single-day death toll since latest anti-government protest began
The Globe and Mail
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July 9, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Demonstrators gesture to anti-riot police during protests for democratic reforms in the Kangemi slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.Brian Inganga/The Associated Press The death toll from Kenya’s anti-government protests on...
Ruto Ally Rages After Kenya Backs UN LGBTQ Rights
Kenyans.co.ke
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July 9, 2025
Kenya’s recent vote to renew the mandate of an international LGBTQ+ rights expert at the United Nations Human Rights Council has ignited political backlash at home. The decision, made on Monday, has drawn sharp criticism even from within the ranks...
Diverse, communal, gender-fluid: African families’ true history is being whitewashed | Wambui Kimani
The Guardian
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July 9, 2025
Growing up on the Kenyan coast in a household filled with aunties and grandparents, one thing was clear to me: raising children is a community endeavour. Anyone could be a disciplinarian for a child if they were going astray: a neighbour’s stare...
Falola to speak on power during Kenyan visit
Nigerian Current
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July 9, 2025
By Peter Wafula Wekesa Kenya has this year lost two of its eminent intellectual powerhouses to the ancestral world. The death of Prof B.A. Ogot and Prof. Ngugi wa Thiongó, in January and May, respectively, presented the country with a moment of...
At least 31 dead, 532 arrested in Kenya’s antigovernment protests
Al Jazeera
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July 9, 2025
The death toll from antigovernment protests in Kenya has surged to at least 31 people, the country’s human rights commission said, with at least 107 others wounded during the nationwide marches. In a statement on Tuesday, the National Commission...
Can Kenya Attract The Outsourcing Jobs Of The AI Future?
International Business Times
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July 9, 2025
In a leafy Nairobi suburb, a Kenyan firm helps foreigners track shoplifters, monitor lung damage from Covid-19 and identify whales -- tapping into the outsourcing market's artificial intelligence-boosted boom. Cloudfactory started in Kenya in...
World Reuters Analysis-Kenya's Ruto faces tough task taming protests and winning over Gen Z
Yahoo News
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By Hereward Holland NAIROBI (Reuters) -Protesters braving police batons, water cannon and occasional bullets on Kenya's streets this week have taken up a rallying cry that is likely to unnerve its embattled president, William Ruto: "Ruto wantam",...
Analysis-Kenya's Ruto faces tough task taming protests and winning over Gen Z
The Gazette - Colorado
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By Hereward Holland NAIROBI (Reuters) -Protesters braving police batons, water cannon and occasional bullets on Kenya's streets this week have taken up a rallying cry that is likely to unnerve its embattled president, William Ruto: "Ruto wantam",...
Reactions as Kenyan Christian men highlight women they wouldn't marry in funny...
TUKO
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July 9, 2025
A group of young men from ACK St Jude Parish in Huruma joined the She is Born Again But challenge that has been trending on TikTok The challenge helps people know the kind of woman that Christian brothers prefer, and the results tickled people...
Death toll from Kenya's latest anti-govt protest surges to 31
The Hindu
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July 9, 2025
Patients are seen through a broken glass window as they receive medicine at the pharmacy section of Kitengela Sub-County Hospital that was attacked by unidentified people who demanded the treatment of their colleagues during anti-government...
UN votes to renew LGBTQ+ expert’s mandate just after the US withdrew from Human Rights Council
LGBTQ Nation - California
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July 8, 2025
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted yesterday to extend the term of its current expert on LGBTQ+ rights by three years. The LGBTQ+ rights expert, South African author and scholar Graeme Reid, investigates human rights abuses against LGBTQ+ people...
Kenyan govt asks motorists to submit views on mandatory vehicle inspections at...
TUKO
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July 8, 2025
Transport Cabinet Secretary (CS) Davis Chirchir drafted four new rules to regulate the roads sector in Kenya The CS set a deadline for motorists and other members of the public to submit their comments on the proposed regulations The Traffic...
Kenya still gripped by tension after ‘Saba Saba’ protests turned deadly
Africa Feeds
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July 8, 2025
Tensions still remain in Kenya, a day after at least 11 people were killed and 29 others sustaining injuries in violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police forces. Monday’s unrest erupted during demonstrations held on Saba Saba,...
Kenya Breaks Ranks in Africa, Supports LGBT Rights Vote as US Pulls Back
Kenyans.co.ke
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July 8, 2025
Kenya on Monday was among a host of countries that took a vote to renew the mandate of an LGBTQ+ rights expert. The vote will reinforce the international community’s commitment to documenting and addressing human rights violations against LGBTQ+...
Digital innovations key in combating Kenya’s rising motor vehicle, boda boda theft crisis
Citizen TV Kenya
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July 8, 2025
Mogo Deputy Country Manager, Branton Mutea. By Branton Mutea Imagine working tirelessly for months or even years, saving every shilling from your modest income to buy a car or motorcycle with the aim of starting a transport business. Then, just...
Amid bloody turmoil, Kenyans are slowly losing their humanity
The Standard
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Protestors along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway at Free Area during the nationwide Saba Saba demonstrations on July 7, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard] I love cross border travel. One of my frequent destinations is Rwanda. Kigali, that beautiful,...
UN expresses concerns over use of violence in recent Kenya protests
JURIST
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July 8, 2025
The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concerns on Tuesday regarding the violence and death toll during popular protests that occurred in Kenya on July 7. The office urged Kenyan authorities to...