On the 18th of March 2024, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, launched AMBER Alerts in Kenya as the fourth country in Africa, aiming to enhance child safety and combat child abductions. The initiative called the Kenya Emergency Child Alert (KECA) was carried out in partnership with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) […]
NIGERIA’S CHILDREN ABDUCTIONS BY BRIAN KING Stories of Boko haram al-Qaeda and al-Shabab abducting kids are not new they were the dark scary parts of our childhoods, from news reports to Hollywood action movies we followed actors and security personnel in their narrations all trying to paint a picture of the horrific and traumatic […]
Femicide has been a trendy topic in our country for the past few months with every attention deprived Jane Doe sharing their very acidic opinions, some being popular and some not so much. Femicide has varied definitions depending on where you look, but all of them basically translate to The intentional killing of women because […]
October 11th of every year is the International day of the child. The world comes together to commemorate the steps made in empowering and securing the girl child. May 16th of each year has been observed as International Day of the Boy Child. This is a day dedicated to the whole world to focus on […]