The year 2024 saw a marked increase of women being murdered in Kenya despite a heightened awareness of the crisis and government measures to curb what the World Health Organisation terms as femicide.

The femicides in Kenya reflect a wider problem across Africa. Over 21,000 gender-related killings of women were documented in Africa in 2023, the highest rate in the world, according to a United ...

Kenyan police routinely fail to respond to complaints of gender-based violence, often considering them private matters, Betty Kabari, an activist with End Femicide Kenya, told Reuters.

Investigative media house Africa Uncensored estimates that 500 women were killed in Kenya between 2017 and 2024. Femicide Count, a Kenyan organisation, recorded 152 cases of femicide in 2023 based ...

A few weeks ago, the National Police Service revealed a staggering statistic about the rate of femicide in Kenya. It was revealed that 97 women had been killed in the last three months.

Kenya seems to be using South Africa as a model for tackling the femicide crisis. In 2018, South African women rallied under the #TheTotalShutdown movement amid a surge in femicide cases.

Kenya’s law enforcement agencies recorded 97 cases of femicide between September and November 2024. Globally, UN Women reported that in 2023 alone, one woman was killed every 10 minutes in ...

According to Africa Data Hub, over 500 women were killed in Kenya between January 2016 and December 2023. And Femicide Count, a Kenyan organization, recorded 152 cases of femicide in 2023 based on ...

Alongside rising awareness of femicide in Kenya, this case led to the #EndFemicideKE protests in December 2024. Protesters marched in Nairobi and other counties under the banner #TotalShutDown, “Stop ...

Kenya's Wave of Deadly Violence Spurs Women to Fight Back By Sonia Rao NAIROBI (Reuters) - From the young woman brutally murdered and dismembered in a short-term rental apartment to the Olympic ...

Item 1 of 10 Activists and civil society members participate in a nationwide march titled “End Femicide Kenya" to raise awareness about gender-based violence (GBV) and to pressure the Kenyan ...