Aynsley Genga is JURIST’s senior Kenya correspondent. She files this report from Nairobi. Susan Njoki’s tragic death sent shockwaves through Kenya’s mental health community—not only because it marked the loss of a passionate advocate, but because her final days revealed the system’s failure to help those it claimed to protect. Susan Njoki—founder of Toto Touch [...]

Two weeks have passed since African Uncensored released its exposé on Peter Ayiro, a male teacher at Alliance Girls High School—one of the top high schools, and the oldest girls’ high school, in the nation—accusing him of grooming and sexual abuse. The article, written by alumna Christine Mungai, took the whole nation by storm. It [...]

Yesterday the country woke up to yet another day of commemoration, marking 35 years since the famous Saba Saba Movement, first held on July 7, 1990. The movement began as a protest, demanding multiparty democracy against the then-government’s autocratic regime. Despite the protest being banned, key opposition leaders still convened in Nairobi. This resulted in [...]

The 25th of June 2024 will forever be remembered in Kenyan history as the heroic day when Kenyan youth demonstrated and breached the country’s parliament buildings with in frustration at the members of the parliament who had acceded to the passing of the finance bill of 2024, a punitive bill which, if assented to law, [...]

One year down the line, and the streets of Nairobi are still marred with the blood of youth protesters and activists. As Kenyans mark a year after the 2024 Finance Bill protest, a day to remember the souls that succumbed to police brutality then, the degree of police brutality and the lack of government accountability [...]

Albert Omondi Ojwang, a 31-year-old teacher and prominent social media commentator based in Voi, was found dead on the morning of Sunday, June 8, in a cell at Nairobi’s Central Police Station. Known for his trenchant and often humorous posts critiquing governance and police conduct, particularly on X (formerly Twitter), Ojwang had gained a loyal [...]

David Odero is a law student at Kisii University and a special correspondent for JURIST. He filed this dispatch from Nairobi.    After several nights of terror, abductions, running battles and the deaths of protesters in the hands of rogue police, President William Ruto has finally decided to withdraw the controversial Finance Bill and send it [...]

Aynsley Genga is JURIST’s senior Kenya correspondent. She files this report from Nairobi. It’s still Wednesday 26th June, and so much has already happened in Kenya since the anti-Finance Bill demonstrations began last Tuesday. We have had civilians being kidnapped, protesters being killed, residents of the Githurai district of Nairobi being massacred in the middle [...]

Aynsley Genga is JURIST’s senior Kenya correspondent. She filed this report from Nairobi on Tuesday afternoon local time (EAT). On Tuesday, Kenya entered its second week of protests against the controversial Finance Bill 2024. People from various counties such as Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu, Nyeri, Tana River and even Turkana decided to come together and protest [...]

David Odero is a law student at Kisii University and a special correspondent for JURIST. He filed this dispatch from Nairobi.   Sleep is for the weak and the wicked, as the saying goes, and this sentiment never made more sense than on the morning of Tuesday, 25 June. Individuals alleged to be members of the [...]