Kenyan authorities have enacted restrictive laws that go against Kenya’s international legal obligations

One evening in 2015, Florence Wanjeri Nderu, a Kenyan human rights and anti-corruption blogger, drove to a neighborhood shopping center in southeastern Nairobi. When she returned to her car, a man she had noticed earlier rushed toward her. Before she could roll up her car windows, she says, he hit her in the eye so hard…

A number of women journalists have plunged into politics and won tickets from their respective parties to fight it out for a place in the National Assembly. As the campaigns for the August 8 General Election kick off officially, indications are that the journalists turned politicians are only a step away from national politics, after trouncing…