African Woman and Child Feature Service

Highlights:

• Shoe shiners want a right to business operations
• Residents shunned as land grabbers invade resort city
• News polls, how accurate are they?
• Need to re-examine laws on reproductive health
• Coffee theft scandal

Highlights in this issue

• Irony of labour rights in the flower industry
• Not so rosy in ailing flower sector
• Sexual offences Act faces myriad implementation challenges and gaps
• Families at loggerheads as war against FGM intensifies
• Abandoned elders receive a new lease in life
• Persons with disabilities lament lack of  consideration

Highlights in this issue:

• Kenyans want wider talks on land laws
• Solar innovation gets village on the technology map
• Malindi leaders want to review wider past deals
• Tribute to Mary Onyango, a fighter to the end
• Robbed of their land,IDPs in Trans Nzoia remain destitute

• Making billionaires out of small time fishing
• Degraded Mau watershed regaining its foothold
• School versus motherhood, a delicate balancing act for teenage mothers
• Petty Akoth: Traditional birth attendant counts over 50 years in service
• Blood disease drains family resources

Highlights of this issue:

• Abandoned wife now wants Government to intervene
• Effects of post-election trauma that left Mwaura blind
• Call for a paradigm shift in media coverage
• Retrogressive culture makes women automatic victims of disqualification
• Man mourns wife's forceful sterilisation
• Disposal of medical waste poses hazards