Katy Migiro
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Kenya: When Women Rule - Rebel Evades Child Marriage and Maasai Curses to Win Power
Opinion - After outmaneuvering her illiterate father three times by the age of 18 to escape his plans to make her a child bride, Peris Tobiko decided the only way to protect other Maasai girls in Kenya from harmful traditions was to become a leader. → Read More
When Women Rule: Kenyan rebel evades child marriage and Maasai curses to win power
By Katy MigiroKAJIADO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After outmaneuvering her illiterate father three times by the age of 18 to escape his pla → Read More
When Women Rule: Kenyan rebel evades child marriage and Maasai curses to win power
"When I was growing up, I was just thinking: 'How do I get to defend the girl child? For me, it became the drive" * Kenya MP evaded child marriage to get into politics * Elders who cursed Persi Tobiko now support her * Tobiko sees education as her priority for next generation By Katy Migiro KAJIADO, Kenya, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After outmaneuvering her illiterate father three… → Read More
When Women Rule: Kenyan rebel evades child marriage and Maasai curses to win power
"When I was growing up, I was just thinking: 'How do I get to defend the girl child? For me, it became the drive" * Kenya MP evaded child marriage to get into politics * Elders who cursed Persi Tobiko now support her * Tobiko sees education as her priority for next generation By Katy Migiro KAJIADO, Kenya, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After outmaneuvering her illiterate father three… → Read More
Squatters battle Kenya's ex-president and charities over wildlife park
By Katy MigiroNAIROBI, July 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Samburu herders in Kenya are fighting for control of 17,000 acres of land that a former... → Read More
Squatters battle Kenya's ex-president and charities over wildlife park
"Here are people with no alternative places to live, people who are born there... They have nowhere else to go" By Katy Migiro NAIROBI, July 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Samburu herders in Kenya are fighting for control of 17,000 acres of land that a former president sold to become a national park, in a case fraught with tensions over conservation and colonial dispossession. The Samburu, a… → Read More
Kenya's nomads swap guns for tourist dollars to end turf wars
Northern Rangelands Trust is working to reduce conflict and poverty among nomads by helping them better manage their land → Read More
Gucci purses and watermelons: dreaming of a better future for Kenya's hungry north
Some 2.6 million people across Kenya are short of food due to consecutive failed rains → Read More
FEATURE -Politics of Death: Colonial scars and drought feed Kenya land wars
"We have nowhere to graze ... I cannot wait and see livestock dying and yet there is grass here," says a herder who lives near Martin Evans' cattle ranch By Katy Migiro LAIKIPIA, Kenya, June 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenyan farmer Martin Evans pushed open the bullet-holed wooden door to reveal a pool of blood where Duncan Murimi, a manager at his cattle ranch in northern Kenya, had been… → Read More
East Africa: Record Hunger in Horn of Africa Pushes Development Banks to Step In
Consecutive failed rains have led to widespread crop failures → Read More
Ethiopia: Hunger to Hit Emergency Levels in Ethiopia Despite Rains
The number of Ethiopians in need of food aid will rise beyond the current 7.7 million, experts say. → Read More
Kenya: African Court Rules Kenya Violates Forest People's Land Rights
Kenya has violated the forest-dwelling Ogiek people's rights to land, religion, culture, development and non-discrimination, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ruled on Friday, in its first decision on indigenous people's rights. → Read More
African Court rules Kenya violates forest people's land rights
By Katy MigiroNAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya has violated the forest-dwelling Ogiek people's rights to land, religion, culture, develop → Read More
Hunger to hit emergency levels in Ethiopia despite rains
The number of Ethiopians in need of food aid will rise beyond the current 7.7 million, experts say. → Read More
Tanzanian Polygamist's Puzzle - How to Stop Six Wives Warring Over 500 Acres?
Magoso's wives each have a title deed showing they co-own their land with him - something highly unusual in Tanzania. → Read More
Tanzanian polygamist's puzzle: how to stop six wives warring over 500 acres?
By Katy MigiroSHISHIYU, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With six wives, 16 children, 60 grandchildren and 500 acres of land, 80-year-old Tanz → Read More
Tanzanian polygamist's puzzle: how to stop six wives warring over 500 acres?
Magoso's wives each have a title deed showing they co-own their land with him - something highly unusual in Tanzania. → Read More
Award-winning Congolese wildlife ranger says he fears for his life
Rodrigue Katembo, one of six winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday, secretly filmed bribes being offered to allow British oil company Soco to drill in Virunga in the Democratic Republic of Congo. → Read More
Award-winning Congolese wildlife ranger says he fears for his life
More than 160 park rangers have been killed in the line of duty over the past 15 years → Read More
INTERVIEW-African women pay for Trump's anti-abortion move
Trump's "global gag" rule withholds U.S. funding for international organisations that perform abortions or tell women about legal options for abortion. By Katy Migiro NAIROBI, April 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lisa Shannon, a U.S. women's rights campaigner, scrolled through photos on her laptop, stopping at a picture of a dead baby in a plastic bag on a dumpsite in Somalia, a brutal… → Read More