SHA appointed 82 principal officers across 18 departments to enhance service delivery, managing three funds and protecting ...

The ministry acknowledged that crime rates often rise during the festive season, with increases in petty offences, home burglaries and traffic violations. Crowded areas such as shopping malls, open ...

The wreckage of the Mercedes Benz that former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo was driving before a road crash that claimed his life ...

Sexual torture is a heinous tactic of silencing. State-sanctioned sexual violence is used to assert power and paralyse the spirit of dissent. It also relies on social systems that punish survivors ...

IMLU warns Kenya is now a ‘repressed’ state as killings, torture, and attacks on freedoms surge in 2025 in its end year report.

In its end-of-year report, the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) says Kenya—now classified among repressed ...

East Africa has been ranked among the most dangerous regions for civic freedoms, with human rights defenders facing growing threats including violence, intimidation and imprisonment.

Civic freedoms across Africa are shrinking, with journalists and activists facing detention ...

Kenya witnessed a sharp rise in human rights violations in 2025. The organisation is urging the government to strengthen accountability mechanisms, operationalise key justice laws. Kenya recorded 97 ...

Lobby group CIVICUS raises alarm over Africa’s wave of cross border crackdown on activists in 2025, decries lack of safe ...

Following the Tanzanian authorities’ brutal response to widespread pro¬tests that took place in the aftermath of the 29 ...