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Kenya

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    “Here they’re safe”: The girls club that emerged when Kenya’s schools closed

    By Wacera Njagi & Sarah Waiswa
    December 3, 2020
    When Kenya’s school closed, many children were left more vulnerable. Some local volunteers took it upon themselves to step in. On the first floor ...
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    Plastic, politics and the pandemic: Photographs from East Africa

    By Uganda Press Photo
    November 5, 2020
    In a year still blighted by a raging pandemic, shuttered cities, political upheavals and citizen discontent, photography continues to be an important window into ...
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    Seven myths about sex education debunked

    By Tom Jalio
    September 9, 2020
    Countries with more sex ed have lower teen pregnancy rates, yet policymakers in Kenya continue to push against it.  Imagine firefighters approaching a burning ...
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    Sex workers face a dilemma: to work or not during COVID-19

    By Ohaga Ohaga
    August 18, 2020
    Kenyan sex workers are being forced to choose between their health and their livelihoods.  Atieno* has been a sex worker for six years. A soft-spoken ...
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    Nairobi evicts 8,000 people amidst a pandemic and curfew

    By Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu & Najma Abdi
    June 10, 2020
    Kenyan authorities demolished hundreds of homes last month, leaving thousands homeless and without any support. In early May, Kenyan authorities evicted more than 8,000 ...
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    Kenya: We cannot police ourselves out of the pandemic

    By Kamau Wairuri
    June 3, 2020
    From early on, the government treated COVID-19 as a law enforcement rather than public health issue. It has a long way to go to ...
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    Stay home and go to the museum

    By Anna Adima
    May 8, 2020
    In Kenya and Uganda, innovators are showing how history can be preserved and shared in new formats for today’s audience.  In Uganda and Kenya, ...
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    From calm to confusion: How Kenya’s COVID-19 frontman lost his sheen

    By Isaac Otidi Amuke
    April 15, 2020
    At the start, Health Secretary Mutahi Kagwe was able to talk the talk of a state in control. But then the government had to ...
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    Must Always pads always be low-quality for Kenyans?

    By Scheaffer Okore
    March 31, 2020
    In Kenya, Always pads use a cheap material that causes irritation for many. In Europe and the US, they don’t.   For more than three decades, ...
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    They were sentenced to death. Got law degrees in prison. Then got free.

    By Dominic Kirui
    March 4, 2020
    In Kenya, where millions struggle to get access to justice, some inmates are studying the law so they can help themselves and each other. ...
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