What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid — ProPublica

Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again...

https://www.propublica.org/article/kakuma-kenya-matenity-ward-foreign-aid-cuts  

After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation — ProPublica

They began to starve, and many — mostly children — died because their malnourished bodies couldn't fight off infections, ProPublica found while reporting in the camp. Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed. Young men took to the streets in protests, some of which devolved into violent riots. Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud. Out of options and mortally afraid, refugees began fleeing the camp by foot and in overcramped cars, threatening a new migration crisis on the continent. They said they'd rather risk being shot or dying on the perilous route than slowly starving in Kakuma...

https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths 

 

How jobseekers from Africa are being tricked into slavery in Asia’s cyberscam compounds

He was set to work every day for the next three months, forced to send thousands of messages from fake social-media profiles, posing as a rich American investor to swindle US real estate agents into cryptocurrency scams. 

When he failed to reach daily targets, he was beaten, locked inside a freezing-cold room and deprived of food for up to two days. He prayed he would avoid the electric shocks and sexual torture others endured at the hands of a Chinese criminal gang that ran the centre...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/09/cyberslavery-kenya-uganda-ethiopia-southeast-asia-myanmar-scam-centres

 

Study: Cash aid is a boon to the health of infants and little kids : Goats and Soda : NPR

Infants born to people who received $1,000, no-strings-attached, were nearly half as likely to die as infants born to people who got no cash, according to a report published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Cash cut mortality in children under 5 by about 45%, the study researchers found, on par with interventions like vaccines and anti-malarials…

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/08/18/g-s1-83197/infants-health-cash-aid-kenya 

 

Papa Don's failed state: the US as seen from Kenya

For months, satirist Patrick Gathara has painted the US as a 'third world' country. Then came the storming of the Capitol.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/09/capitol-storming-us-failed-state-kenya-patrick-gathara

Kenyan Shabab Operative Planned 9/11-Style Attack, U.S. Says - The New York Times

... Mr. Abdullah began the process of enrolling in a flight school in the Philippines in 2016, received training and ultimately completed the tests necessary to obtain his pilot's license, according to the indictment. He also researched methods of hijacking a commercial airliner, such as how to breach a cockpit door from the outside, the indictment charged...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/nyregion/cholo-abdi-abdullah-shabab-indictment.html

‘A more open way of being’: Catholics in Kenya rebel against clerical celibacy vow - The Washington Post

He was a priest just out of seminary. She was a nurse. They were both from the slopes of Mount Kenya, but their paths improbably crossed in Rome. He became unshakable in his desire to marry her, even though he had taken the Catholic Church’s mandatory vow of celibacy for priests...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/a-more-open-way-of-being-catholics-in-kenya-rebel-against-celibacy-vow-for-priests/2019/05/31/4cfa93a6-45d0-11e9-94ab-d2dda3c0df52_story.html

Videos of Mark Meadows saying ‘send Obama home to Kenya’ resurface hours after he’s accused of racist stunt - The Washington Post

The most emotionally fraught moment during the Michael Cohen hearing had nothing directly to do with President Trump’s former lawyer but was a tense exchange after one lawmaker accused another of engaging in a racist act by bringing a black woman to the hearing “as a prop.”...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/28/video-mark-meadows-saying-send-obama-home-kenya-resurfaces-hours-after-hes-accused-racist-stunt/

New Data Shows How the US Ban on Global Funds for Abortion Spectacularly Backfires - Mother Jones

In early 2017, Family Health Options Kenya (FHOK), the longest-running network of family planning clinics in the African country, faced a dilemma. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/new-data-shows-how-the-u-s-ban-on-global-funds-for-abortion-spectacularly-backfires/

Trump's ban on global abortion funding has led to more abortions - CNN

Health worker Elizabeth Wanjiru was walking through the narrow streets of Kenya's largest slum earlier this year when she came across two schoolboys pointing at something in a muddy ditch. As she drew closer she saw it was the remains of an aborted fetus. Dumped elsewhere in Kibera, the fetus had washed up in a narrow alleyway after a night of rainfall. It's something Wanjiru hasn't seen for years....

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/health/trump-mexico-city-policy-abortion-ban-kenya-asequals-intl/index.html

Large crack in East African Rift is evidence of continent splitting in two - PBS NewsHour

A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya. ....
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/large-crack-in-east-african-rift-is-evidence-of-continent-splitting-in-two

Impact of 'global gag rule' goes beyond abortion for these health groups...

The so-called global gag rule, which cuts off some U.S. government aid to health agencies that offer or mention abortion services, has been reinstated by every Republican president going back to Reagan. But the Trump administration has gone much further, cutting all funding to groups that offer vital health care services in places like Kenya. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has the story....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLuHMVPn-U&feature=youtu.be

The Billionaire Founder of eBay Plans to Give Thousands of Kenyans Free Income for 12 Years (Money)

A bold experiment in an untested concept. ...
http://time.com/money/4669226/the-billionaire-founder-of-ebay-plans-to-give-thousands-of-kenyans-free-income-for-12-years/