African Woman and Child Feature Service

World Population Day Special

Highlights of this issue:

• A people forgotten
• Investing in the population
• Triplets changed my family for the worse
• Patriarchy remains a major barrier to spaced births
• Without family planning, they trade child birth for school
• Uncertainty looms as HIV funding dwindles
• New health policy to boost devolved counties
• Breaking the chains of poverty through food security
• Tea pickers labouring under difficult circumstances

Madaraka Day Special

Highlights:

• Kenyans still groping in the dark
• Boy loses arm due to medical negligence
• Freedom fighters lose interest in Madaraka Day
• Fresh details emerge in Bagalla, Buthutha attacks
• A Century plus 30, granny recalls the good old days

Day of the African Child Special

Highlights of this issue:

• No longer safe:Kenyan children at threat within the four walls they call home
• Challenges abound for Africa's urban child
• Beads for sex leaves girls enslaved to Morans
• Why sexuality must be part of the curriculum
• Climate change puts children in harms way
• Girls in largest school face enormous challenges

Highlights in this issue:

• Identity card nightmare
• All is not well in Turkana's oil field
• Schools in Nyeri county use chopper rides to motivate students
• Community sensitised on reduction of carbon emissions
• Radicalism among youth a threat to peace
• Progress in land reforms

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