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Njeri Migwi, a woman human rights defender and the Co-Founder of Usikimye (Swahili word for 'Don't be Silent'), an organization working towards ending the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence (GBV) holds her phone in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Migwi, is on the frontline of a war against a silent epidemic of Gender Based Violence or GBV in Kenya that also afflicts many Sub-Saharan African countries, with devasting consequences on individuals, societies and even the countries’ economies. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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Kenyan activists are on a mission to end gender-based violence as attacks on women surge
By TOM ODULA - Associated Press
Fri,03/08/24-11:24PM , 31 Reads
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Njeri Migwi’s phone buzzes incessantly. Phone calls and messages keep coming in from women seeking help to escape life-threatening situations. A mother and her remaining child are looking for a place to stay after her partner allegedly raped and killed her two other children, including a 6-month old.
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A vehicle loaded with gas exploded and set off an inferno that burned homes and warehouses in Kenya's capital early Friday, injuring more than 270 people and killing at least three with the toll expected to rise. (Feb 2.)

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A fire set off by a gas explosion in Kenya kills at least 3 people and injures 280 others
By TOM ODULA - Associated Press
Thu,02/01/24-9:42PM , 72 Reads
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Liquid petroleum gas cylinders exploded in an illegal depot in a residential area of the Kenyan capital, officials said Friday, setting off a late-night inferno that killed at least three people and injured 280 others. The death toll was expected to rise.
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In this photograph released by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Dr. Thomas Hildbrandt, head of projects, holds a white rhinoceros embryo that was created in a lab from an egg and sperm that had been previously collected from other rhinos and later transferred into a southern white rhino surrogate mother, in Kenya Nov. 29, 2023. A rhinoceros is pregnant through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that conservationists said could be used to try to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies. (Jon Juarez/IZW via AP)

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A rhino got pregnant from embryo transfer, in a success that may help nearly extinct subspecies
By TOM ODULA - Associated Press
Wed,01/24/24-11:06PM , 45 Reads
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Researchers say a rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that they say might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies.
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