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Kenya

  • Nairobi attack: Kenyan police continue security measures a day after the terror attack in Nairobi. Credit: EPA-EFE/Dai Kurokawa
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    How Kenya’s security forces made sure they responded better this time

    By Patrick Muthengi Maluki
    January 21, 2019
    Kenya’s security services failed to heed warnings of an impending attack, but otherwise responded much more quickly and effectively than before. The Riverside terror ...
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    30% of trips in Nairobi are made by minibus. Why were they banned?

    By Rachel Strohm
    December 6, 2018
    While other major cities are blocking private cars to encourage the use of buses, Nairobi is moving in the opposite direction.  Commuting to work ...
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  • Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos (right) meeting his South African counterpart. Credit: GCIS.
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    Insiders Insight: The downfall of the Dos Santos family

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    This week, we have a couple of free preview sections (scroll down), the first an update on a fresh young campaigner in Kenya, the other ...
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  • Exhibits from Michael Soi's "China Loves Africa" exhibition at the Circle Art Gallery in Nairobi. Credit: Circle Art Gallery.
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    Why is Africa always portrayed as a passive woman?

    By Nanjala Nyabola
    September 18, 2018
    Africa is often talked about as an object to be consumed. Even those who resist this discourse sometimes employ it. At the start of ...
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  • When Ugandan politician Bobi Wine was arrested, people across East Africa voiced their opposition both online, through the #FreeBobiWine hashtag, and offline.
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    #FreeBobiWine and today’s Pan-Africanism for the digital age

    By Nanjala Nyabola
    August 23, 2018
    African activists are increasingly finding their voices amplified by allies across the continent. Most #FreeBobiWine traffic came from outside Uganda. The violent arrest, detention ...
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    Editor's PicksKenyaSociety

    “I saw myself as I giant”: Tackling a crisis of masculinity in Kenya

    By Thomas Lewton, Alice McCool & Charity Atukunda
    July 17, 2018
    A Christian-infused programme urges prison inmates to look beyond traditional gender roles. But is a godly masculinity better than a toxic one? Kamiti Maximum ...
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  • Kenya constitution: Raila Odinga is one of a handful of people to have proposed changing Kenya's constitution recently. Comsec/Rebecca Nduku
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    Kenya: Only civil society can stop elites changing the constitution

    By Morris Odhiambo
    July 16, 2018
    Many fear that changes to constitution could see its progressive elements removed.  Not for the first time in Kenyan history, politicians seem to be ...
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  • A woman herder in Nakukulas, Turkana county, with a gas flare in the distance. Credit: Nick Young.
    EconomyEditor's PicksKenya

    What does “development” actually look like? The case of LAPSSET

    By Nick Young
    July 5, 2018
    According to its official description, the enormous and multi-faceted project known as LAPSSET is “Eastern Africa’s largest and most ambitious infrastructure project bringing together ...
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  • A woman herder in Nakukulas, Turkana county, with a gas flare in the distance. Credit: Nick Young.
    EconomyKenyaTop story

    “When I grew up the land was for the community”: Oil troubles in Turkana

    By Nick Young
    July 4, 2018
    Huge oil discoveries in Kenya’s poorest county have so far brought more frustration and tensions than hope. This is the third part in a ...
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  • A cattle market in Garissa. Credit: USAID/Mariantonietta Peru.
    EconomyKenya

    LAPSSET: Will a new highway open up the long-neglected Garissa?

    By Nick Young
    June 27, 2018
    Many in the area are upbeat about the new infrastructure project, but concerns over security and land remain. This is the second part in ...
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