The brutal murder of Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei in September 2024 brought renewed global attention to a silent epidemic ...

Rebecca Cheptegei's family has recounted the late Ugandan's last moments after her estranged partner attacked her Cheptegei was doused in petrol and set on fire on September 1 by her ex-lover ...

BUKOBA: IN a rare, crowd-pulling and attention-grabbing incident, an elderly man and his wife died on the same day, leaving ...

Gender-based violence has long been a major problem in Kenya because of patriarchal views, socioeconomic inequalities and ...

The latest is Rebecca Cheptegei, who was killed in September 2024. Why is Kenya's government not providing stronger protections against gender-based violence and femicide? Josey Mahachi talks to ...

Police in Kenya have arrested a man carrying a mutilated corpse in his backpack, which he reportedly said belonged to his 19-year-old wife. Officers came across 29-year-old John Kiama Wambua while ...

Almost 200 Kenyan women were murdered in gender-based violent incidents in 2024, nearly double the previous year, monitoring groups said Monday.

From the young woman brutally murdered and dismembered in a short-term rental apartment to the Olympic runner set on fire by her estranged boyfriend, a surge in violence against women in Kenya has ...

"They are known, but the police have no interest in following up." The professional runner Rebecca Cheptegei, whose ex-boyfriend killed her in September by dousing her in petrol and setting her ...