Tag: gender violence

Police search for clues after 9-yr-old girl dies following sexual assault ordeal in Nairobi

Police in Dagoretti start investigations after a nine-year-old girl dies following a sexual assault ordeal by unknown people.

Policewoman on the run after shooting husband for not picking her calls, giving house help Ksh50 without consulting her

The Administration Police officer, APC Maureen, was reportedly angered by her husband’s failure to pick her calls after giving house help lunch money.

Women share painful tales of failed bids to get justice for abused mother who died and daughter raped by a cousin

Two woman narrate painful experiences that reveal police inaction and increasing cases of domestic abuse in the country.

Rape of Kenyan woman in the Maldives causes outrage

The woman was attacked after a party on a safari yacht anchored in the greater Male region of Hulhumale, according to local media outlets.

Shebesh blames COVID-19 ‘lockdown’, flooding for rising gender-based violence

Shebesh says violence has been exacerbated by COVID-19 pandemic and flooding where spouses are forced to hunker down together for long.

Man dies after being stabbed by lover at chang’aa den in Molo

Eyewitnesses say the woman, an alleged chang’aa den brewer, grabbed a knife and stabbed her lover after a disagreement.

Makueni police hunt down man who set his wife on fire with thinner and fled

Solomon Muthaura Rukaria, 42, is alleged to have gone home drunk at 11pm on Thursday where he started quarrelling his wife.