About 250,000 people live in Kibera slum in Nairobi.
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Kenya needs to complete its national digital land registry to increase transparency and efficiency of the city’s land.
Hundreds rally against sexual violence in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Rape culture in Kenya means that women are often blamed for being victims of assault. This needs to change.
Former US president Barack Obama delivers a speech in Kenya ahead of his visit to South Africa.
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Barack Obama is delivering the Nelson Mandela lecture in a changing world dominated by the often outrageous utterances of his successor, US President Donald Trump.
Cheating has risen significantly over the past 30 years in Kenya.
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The impact of cheating is that students aren’t properly assessed, don’t perform, don’t get into university and aren’t skilled.
Central Island, the breeding ground of what was once the world’s largest population of Nile Crocodile.
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Lake Turkana’s status as a World Heritage Site hasn’t protected it from environmental threats.
Afternoon traffic into Nairobi’s CBD.
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Research shows that cities benefit from car-free days in many ways.
A group of Maasai women and children in Kenya.
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In Maasai communities women have no autonomy to make decisions about their nutrition and that of their children.
Some of the 50 Cuban medical specialists who arrived in Kenya recently to work in under served rural areas.
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Cuban doctors have specific expertise in dealing with diseases like malaria which remains a major problem in Kenya.
By focusing on evidence to inform policy, Africa can tackle some major problems.
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Africa has a real challenge when it comes to using academic research and evidence to design policies.
People feel a real sense of community in slums like Kibera in Nairobi.
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Moving people without taking their social and economic concerns into consideration isn’t the way to deal with urban slums.
Small businesses around Africa should be benefiting from e-commerce.
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E-commerce companies should deliberately build systems that are structured to provide supportive business environments for small and medium enterprises.
Students in a Nairobi slum school. There are more than monetary barriers for parents from poor neighbourhoods.
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Getting more children into secondary school in Kenya requires striking a balance between top-down policy and bottom-up implementation.
One of the refugee camps in Dadaab, northern Kenya, where more than 300,000 call home.
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Kenya may never close Dadaab, but it has good reasons for wishing to do so
A new act is trying to lock down cyber crime in Kenya.
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Kenya’s new Computer and Cyber Crime Act must not be abused by the criminal justice system.
Devolving power and resources from the centre to the counties was a key pillar of Kenya’s 2010 referendum vote.
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In many counties, there are new health centres, roads and street lights that wouldn’t be there without devolution.
About 40% of Nairobi’s water supply gets lost on the way to consumers.
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The beauty of rainwater harvesting is that anybody can do it.
An elephant in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. The country wants the death penalty for poachers.
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The death penalty and military intervention to combat poaching, isn’t the answer to saving endangered species.
Conservationists are at loggerheads about how to save elephants from poaching.
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Improving livelihoods by exploring alternatives to wildlife trade would help to curb the poaching of threatened species like elephants.
Kenya Wildlife Service rangers on patrol at the Meru National Park.
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Kenya’s death penalty proposal is not the quick fix solution to curb wildlife poaching.
A woman sells charcoal in Nairobi, Kenya.
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There are some big misconceptions about the charcoal sector and its role in environmental damage.