BRIAN INGANGA

Associated Press
Children of the Maasai tribe perform a traditional jumping dance during the Enkipaata ceremony, a Maasai male rite of passage, specifically the initiation of boys, marking the transition from childhood to becoming a moran (warrior) in Olaimutiai, Narok County, Kenya, Thursday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
AP PHOTOS: A new generation of Maasai warriors is born in Kenya
OLAIMUTIAI, Kenya (AP) — Boys become warriors in an ancient initiation ceremony in Kenya’s Maasai community. This rite of passage is known as “Enkipaata.”
 
Men from Maasai tribe perform the traditional dance during the Enkipaata ceremony, a Maasai male rite of passage, specifically the initiation of boys, marking the transition from childhood to becoming a moran (warrior) in Olaimutiai, Narok County, Kenya Wednesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
A new generation of Maasai warriors is born in Kenya
Boys become warriors in an ancient initiation ceremony in Kenya’s Maasai community. This rite of passage is known as “Enkipaata.” It has been declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO but has had to adapt to modern times.
 
Young dancers perform, during a Christmas ballet event in Kibera slum, one of the busiest neighborhoods of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
AP PHOTOS: Ballerinas turn one of Kenya’s largest slums into a stage for a Christmas show
 
Protesters run from a cloud of tear gas fired by anti-riot police during the march against the rising cases of femicide, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Police in Kenya hurl tear gas at protesters angry about gender-based violence
Police in Kenya’s capital have hurled tear gas canisters at hundreds of protesters angry about gender-based violence and femicide or the killing of women. Police arrested an unknown number of people on Tuesday.
 
Doctors and other medical staff take part in a protest, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, March 22, 2024. Hundreds of Kenyan doctors have protested in the streets demanding better pay and working conditions in an ongoing nationwide strike that has entered its second week. The doctors carried placards and chanted against the Kenyan government on Friday, saying it had failed to implement a raft of promises, including a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike during which people died from lack of care. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Hundreds of Kenyan doctors protest in the streets as national strike enters second week
Hundreds of Kenyan doctors have protested in the streets demanding better pay and working conditions in an ongoing nationwide strike that has entered its second week.
 
Kenya Wildlife Service rangers and capture team pull out a sedated black rhino from the water in Nairobi National Park, Kenya Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Kenya has embarked on its biggest rhino relocation project ever and began the difficult work Tuesday of tracking, darting and moving 21 of the critically endangered beasts, which can each weigh over a ton, hundreds of miles in trucks to a new home. A previous attempt at moving rhinos in the East African nation in 2018 was a disaster as all 11 of the animals died. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Kenya embarks on its biggest rhino relocation project. A previous attempt was a disaster
Kenya has embarked on its biggest rhino relocation project and has begun the difficult work of tracking, darting and moving 21 of the critically endangered beasts to a new home.
 
Young dancers perform, during a Christmas ballet event in Kibera, one of the busiest neighborhoods of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. The ballet project is run by Project Elimu, a community-driven nonprofit that offers after-school arts education and a safe space to children in Kibera. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
AP PHOTOS: Young Kenyan ballet dancers stage early Christmas performance for their community
Fifteen-year-old Brenda Branice is among the dancers and can’t hide her joy.
 
People wade through a section of a road destroyed by floods in Mandera County, Kenya, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
With death toll rising, Kenyan military evacuates people from flood-hit areas
Kenya’s military continued efforts Thursday to evacuate hundreds of people trapped by raging floods that have hit many parts of the East African country.
 
People jump and wave Kenyan flags during the 60th Jamhuri Day Celebrations (Independence Day) at Uhuru gardens Stadium in Nairobi, Monday, Dec. 12, 2023. Thousands of Kenyans braved a chilly morning to attend festivities Tuesday in the capital Nairobi, to mark 60 years since the East African country gained independence from British Colonial rule. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Kenya marks 60 years of independence, and the president defends painful economic measures
Kenya’s president is defending the high taxes the government recently imposed, calling them a “necessary sacrifice “in helping the country deal with ballooning foreign debt which now stands at $70 billion.
 
Residents gather for a planned distribution of food, after El Niño rains damaged their houses in Bangale town in Tana River county, Kenya, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. Severe flooding in the country has killed at least 71 people and displaced thousands, according to estimates from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga).
Kenya raises alarm as flooding death toll rises to 76, with thousands marooned by worsening rains
Kenya’s government is urging people living in flood-prone areas to relocate to higher ground as heavy rains and flash floods continued to wreak havoc across East Africa.
 
A bull rolls in the mud as it prepares to fight another bull at a bullfight in Kabaras, Kakamega county Kenya, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Thousands of people braved the rain and cold to attend an annual bullfighting competition in western Kenya over the weekend, some of them sitting in trees or on hilltops to witness an event that has become a tourist attraction. Bullfighting in western Kenya goes back decades and features two prized bulls fighting it out until one runs away. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
AP PHOTOS: Thousands attend a bullfighting competition in Kenya despite the risk of being gored
The competition is usually preceded by a march where bull owners and supporters work the animals into a frenzy. Previous events have seen bulls goring onlookers.
 
People hold placards as they chant slogan during a protest against a ruling by the Kenya supreme court for upholding the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) to register the association in Nairobi, Friday Oct. 6 2023. The protests took place after the Friday prayers with demonstrator’s calling out Kenya’s highest court for “condoning immorality.” (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Muslims in Kenya protest at Supreme Court over its endorsement of LGBTQ right to associate
Hundreds of Muslims in Kenya’s capital have rallied outside the Supreme Court to protest its decision last month to reaffirm the LGBTQ community’s right of association. The protesters say the verdict has condoned immorality.