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I'm Worth Defending officer Amelia Awuor, left, demonstrates self-defense techniques at Enkakenya Centre for Excellence in Narok County, Kenya, on Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicholas Komu)
Maasai girls take up self-defense as protection from sexual abuse and early marriage
Maasai girls are taking up martial arts to protect themselves from sexual abuse and violence stemming from early marriage.
 
Drought forces Kenya’s Maasai and other cattle herders to consider fish and camels
The blood, milk and meat of cattle have long been the staple foods for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya, perhaps the country’s most recognizable community. But climate change is forcing the Maasai to contemplate a very different dish: fish.
 
Peter Nyongesa walks through the mangroves to monitor his beehives in Bangladesh slums, Mombasa county, Kenya Thursday, May 30, 2024. The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalled how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact. So he has turned to deterring the loggers with bees, hidden in the mangroves and ready to sting. (AP Photo/Gideon Maundu)
Mind the mangroves! Some Kenyans combat the threat of logging with hidden beehives
Some conservation-minded Kenyans are trying to protect threatened mangroves from loggers by hiding beehives in them.
 
A herpetologist milks the venom out of a snake at Kenya Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre (KSRIC) in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, April 5, 2024. KSRIC is seeking to produce local antivenom in collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. This partnership combines local expertise and international research to create effective treatments that can save lives and improve the management of snakebite incidents in affected regions. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
It’s hard to find treatment for snakebites in Kenya. Thousands of people are dying every year
Antivenom for snakebites can be hard to find in Kenya, where about 4,000 snakebite victims die every year. About 7,000 others experience paralysis or other health complications. Residents fear the problem is growing.
 
The Dandora Secondary school, separated with a mountain of garbage amidst smoke from burning trash at Dandora, the largest garbage dump in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Monday, April 22, 2024. Students at a school next to Kenya's largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to purify the air with bamboo. They have planted more than 100 seedlings along the wall that separates the school from the trash dump that was declared full 23 years ago. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
They study next to one of Africa’s largest trash dumps. They’re planting bamboo to try to cope
Students at a school next to Kenya’s largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to purify the air with bamboo. They have planted more than 100 seedlings along the wall that separates the school from the trash dump that was declared full 23 years ago.