Kenya
Climate Change Is Making Women's Chores Deadlier
The job of collecting water during the dry season is sending women in northern Kenya farther and farther afield, even while pregnant. Some women don't make it back alive.
U.S. Troops Might be in Danger. Why Is the Military Trying to Hide It?
Formerly secret files raise questions about the security of American military bases in Africa.
Kenyan Police Used COVID-19 Laws to Arrest Protesters, Then Put Them in the Same Cell
Police have used lockdown measures as an excuse to crackdown on residents, and the morning of this year's annual "Saba Saba" protest was no different.
Kenyan Police Killed Three People in Clashes Sparked by a Dispute Over a Face Mask
A researcher told VICE News that there'd been 25 killings by police enforcing lockdown measures before these recent deaths.
Kenya’s Cops May Be Killing More People Than Coronavirus
“We know you and we will find you,” the president said in an address to the nation and quarantine escapees on Wednesday.
‘Unprecedented’ Swarms of Locusts Are Devouring Crops and Slamming Into Planes in East Africa
It's the worst locust infestation Kenya has seen in 70 years.
Al-Shabaab Is Escalating Its Assault on U.S. Forces in Africa
Three Americans were killed in the jihadist group's first successful attack on U.S. forces in Kenya.
An African Black Leopard Has Been Captured in Stunning Rare Photographs
Sightings of wild melanistic leopards are rare in Africa—but not unheard of.
Al-Shabaab militants kill 14 people in a hotel siege in Nairobi
"We can confirm that 14 innocent lives were lost through the hands of these murderous terrorists."
Kid Scientists Capture Rare Footage of Endangered Animals on Camera Traps
A unique project turned students at schools around the world into citizen scientists.
Inside the Psychedelic New Film Genre Redefining African Representation
Kenyan filmmakers Wanuri Kahiu, Likarion Wainaina, and Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann tell us how AFROBUBBLEGUM is expanding onscreen depictions of Africa.
This Lesbian Film Won In Kenyan Courts and Left the Country Divided
"Our effort at every point, even when we’re agitating for constitutional rights, is to make Nairobi, and Kenya overall, largely a place that we are proud of —a place that is fitting the constitution that we’re proud of."