CFK Africa, an international nonprofit that empowers youth in 26 slums across East Africa, has launched a new initiative targeting women in Kenyan slums. The initiative dubbed, Women at Work, will ...
This story was produced in partnership with InfoNile, supported by the Pulitzer Center. In December 2023, Asha Okoth Jaoko, a boat owner from Kiumba Beach, Rusinga Island, received the news that 18 ...
Kibera, like other slums in Africa, is facing dire challenges of sanitation. The large population in the informal settlement is a limiting factor to the development of a long-term solution to the ...
Joyce Kimani, a graduate of supply chain management, was frustrated after searching for a job after graduation proved futile. When her four-year hard work at the university had not paid off, she ...
A six-year programme to build a climate-resilient and low-emission dairy sector is now underway across East Africa. Dubbed Dairy Interventions for Mitigation and Adaptation (DaIMA) programme, led by ...
A baseline study using a gender lens was conducted from March to June 2023 on the impacts of climate change on the livelihoods of the fisher communities in the Lake Victoria Region of Homa Bay and ...
Emukule Calistus, from Akichelesit village, Teso-North Constituency, Busia County, has been a groundnut farmer for more than two decades now. However, it reached a point where he almost abandoned the ...
Even though Kakamega forest has an extensive variety of birds, reptiles and insects that make the biodiversity hub unique, large mammals are now rare. The forest, a tropical rainforest situated in the ...
When dawn breaks over Kanyawa village in Gilgil, Nakuru County, Kenya, Agnes Kabogoro steps into her small farm. The morning mist still hugging rows of indigenous vegetables including managu and ...
In this in-depth Q&A, Daniel Otunge sat down with Dr. Enock Chikava, Director of Agricultural Delivery Systems at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to seek his insights into the impact of climate ...
Kisumu, Siaya, Homabay, Migori and Busia are the five Kenyan Counties bordering Lake Victoria; the largest in Africa and the second largest fresh water body in the World. Every day, Lake Victoria is ...
Poor sexual and reproductive health is a persistent and significant problem in low and middle-income countries. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says illnesses and deaths from poor ...