In Korogocho, reasons for absenteeism included illness, lack of school fees, family reasons and work-related activities. Overall, illness, which was the most frequently reported, accounted for 36 ...

Korogocho’s senior chief Mr Nyabuto Mache has pledged to support aged women in self-defense and other sporting activities so as to eliminate rape cases in the slum. Speaking on Friday morning in ...

Inside a church in the Korogocho area of the capital Nairobi, Mary Wainaina, 93, thumped a punching bag. "No! No! No!" she shouted, before running away from a classmate pretending to be a male ...

A surge in gender-based violence in Kenya, with at least 97 femicides recorded between August and October last year, has prompted women to learn self-defense. In Nairobi's Korogocho, elder women known ...