‘I can’t sleep’: What an athlete’s murder tells us about women’s safety in Kenya
In 2021, then President Uhuru Kenyatta declared gender-based violence “a national crisis”.
A year later, a government report found 41% of married women had experienced physical violence.
A survey by Africa Data Hub found that between 2016 and 2023, there were more than 500 reported cases of women being killed in Kenya.
“In 75% of cases, killings were committed by a person who knew the murdered woman – an intimate partner, relative or friend,” the report says. Link to story here,