Author: Viola Kosome

Country braces for the worst of next month’s El Nino rains

Reading Time: 3 minutes It is 9am and a group of seven women are busy preparing breakfast at a makeshift evacuation camp at an […]

Controlling behaviour and red flags GBV survivors often ignore

Reading Time: 7 minutes When Lilian Akinyi, 42, walked into marriage 20 years ago, she had dreams of building a peaceful and successful family […]

Senate leads effort to rescue 8 patients detained in Kisumu church

Reading Time: 2 minutes Eight people with various illnesses were yesterday rescued in a church in Kisumu county after a Senate ad hoc committee […]

Agony of Kano, Budalang’i residents ravaged by floods

Reading Time: 4 minutes Josephine Akinyi, an 80-year-old grandmother wipes her face with a torn handkerchief as she stares at the thick clouds gathering […]

Raila accuses State of diverting funds for projects in Nyanza

Reading Time: 2 minutes Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga yesterday criticised Kenya Kwanza government for allegedly abandoning development projects initiated in the Nyanza region […]

Inside Homa Bay ups fight against GBV among girls

Reading Time: 2 minutes Alarmed by the soaring cases of teenage pregnancy, new HIV infections and Gender Based Violence (GBV) cases among young girls […]

Shame of rising cases of incest, rape in Kisumu

Reading Time: 4 minutes Cases of sexual abuse are on the rise in Seme and Nyakach sub-counties in Kisumu county with some being victims […]

Don tackling breast cancer, stigma with a rare courage

Reading Time: 3 minutes A number of men fighting breast cancer are struggling with stigma of a disease that many have always associated with […]