A new app designed to reduce online viewing of child sexual abuse material has received £1.8m of funding from the European Union. This app called Salus a , Protech project, is expected to work in real time where it will utilize artificial intelligence to identify potential child sexual abuse material and stop users from seeing it In […]
One in 68 children is affected by the Autism spectrum disorder in Kenya according to a consortium of rights groups. Badili Africa, Usikimye and Oxfam Kenya said it is one of the fastest-growing developmental disorders among children. Although people are becoming more aware of autism, they said, there is still a lot of misinformation about the […]
A teacher at Nyajanja Mixed Secondary School in Rangwe, Homa Bay County is being hunted by police for allegedly defiling six students, impregnating one in the process. The 38-year-old teacher, who was employed by the school’s Board of Management (BOM), is alleged to have been defiling the six students in the latrines. His actions came to light […]
Rohan Shah, 14, submission of a heron flying off with a skink in its beak from Masai Mara has won him the runners-up prize in the 2022 Young Travel Photographer of the Year award category. He won in the 14-year-olds and under category in Travel Photographer of the Year 2022 competition. “I am humbled to have […]
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has decried a rising trend of teenage pregnancies especially in Western Kenya. He said the pregnancies are a crises that requires drastic measures to end the vice. He said that data shows that western Kenya of Bumngoma, Busia, Kakamenga and Vihiga are leading in teen pregnancies. He was speaking at […]
Dial A Pad is petitioning the government to lower the cost of pads from Sh 100 to Sh.50. This, the organization said, will help in saving many girls and women from period shame that can be occasioned by this price hick. Although Kenya has made tremendous gains over the years in a bid to end […]
About 14,000 learners in 60 Day Secondary Schools in Kiharu Constituency, Muranga County are set to benefit from Ksh 1,000 per term school fee program. This is after the area Member of Parliament, Ndindi Nyoro, launched kiharu masomo bora program which aims to alleviate fees burden and promote education accessibility and equality. In essence parents […]
World Health Organization has called upon countries to invest and establish childhood cancer centres of excellence and care networks to promote early detection for better outcomes and survival of childhood cancers victims. According to the organization for a child living in a low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) the likelihood of surviving cancer is less than 30 […]
Serikali ya Tanzania imepiga marufuku vitabu kadhaa vya watoto vinavyoashiria elimu ya ngono, kwa madai ya kukiuka “mila na desturi za maadili” katika nchi hiyo ya Afrika Mashariki ambapo ushoga ni uhalifu. “Tunapiga marufuku vitabu hivi katika shule na miundo mingine ya elimu kwa sababu ni kinyume na viwango vya kitamaduni na maadili,” Waziri […]
Tanzania government has banned a popular series of children’s books from schools claiming they violate local cultural norms. Education Minister Adolf Mkenda announced Monday an immediate ban on The Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. He added that the government will keep an eye on libraries in both public and private schools to make sure they were […]