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By Alloys Musyoka A 23-year-old Mwanalima Mohamed is among hundreds of young girls from Kwale County who have benefitted from the She Leads project carried out by the Network for Adolescents and Youth of Africa. After doing her class eight exam, she says her parents abandoned her, shutting her dream to join secondary school. “My parents did not want me to go to school, especially my father. Instead, he wanted to marry me off. My appeal for joining form one was ignored,” she told Coast Times Digital. Was it not for NAYA and the She Leads project that focuses on…

By REPORTER Human Rights Agenda has launched a three-month civic education program for special interest groups in Kwale County. The program targets youth, women and persons living with disabilities. The group is being trained on governance, electoral process and political party registration. The project is being sponsored by USAID through Act (Act Change Transform). It is being rolled out across the county. HURIA Public Complaint Response officer Mwinyihaji Chamosi said the forum seeks to strengthen marginalized groups’ knowledge on matters of forms and stages of impactful civic participation in governance as well as the importance of political participation with a…

By Johnson Chengo A grade four pupil in Ganze Constituency, Kilifi County was Wednesday electrocuted by a falling electricity pole. The twelve-year-old Kennedy Kalume Iha of Bamba Primary School was returning home from school when the incident happened. He is receiving treatment at Kilifi County Referral Hospital after the 4:30 pm incident, the family said. According to his father Karisa Iha, said the boy mate the incident with his friends when they were returning home from school. “The electricity poll was almost falling for some months and the live wires were loosely hanging. When they reached the area of the…

By Caroline Katana  Youth in Kwale County have been asked to familiarize themselves with the Kwale County Action Plan to counter violent extremism. The plan is a localized version of the national strategy to end Violent Extremism that was launched by the former president on September 7, 2016. Speaking in a meeting with youth leaders from Matuga Youth Watch at Tiwi in Matuga constituency, Kenya community support centre, KECOSCE field officer Mwalimu Rama said it is good for youth leaders to understand the five pillars of the action plan document. “The document has psychosocial, ideology, economic, media, and education pillars.…

Johnson Chengo Angry parents stormed and ejected, teachers paralysing learning at Mkombe primary school in Kilifi county on Monday. They blamed the school management for decimal performance, poor management and misappropriation of funds. They vowed to stop learning activities until the government intervene in the matter. Before this, several parents had transferred their children to other neighbouring schools. Speaking to journalists outside the school, Karisa Dhadu one of the parents, said that they are worried that the school would collapse if all students were withdrawn. “The school might soon face closure by the Ministry of Education for lack of students…

Kilifi governor Gedion Mung’aro has disband the county public service board with immediate effect over nepotism in hiring of staff besides gross abuse of public office. Mung’aro claimed that the board led by chairperson Rose Ngoa was not delivering on their mandate inline with the county government law. Speaking outside his residence office in Kilifi, Mung’aro said the board members were accorded enough time to represent grounds for defeanse before the county assembly but failed. “I have taken time to go through the full report and having considered the submission made by the practice and the decision reached by relevant…

BY COAST TIMES REPORTER Principal Secretary for Maritime Affairs Shadrack Mwadime has urged the coastal youth especially girls to take advantage of the blue economy courses to change their lives. Mwadime said the government is banking on the blue economy to break the chain of poverty, the menace of drug abuse, teen pregnancies and early marriages for the coastal people. The PS said a society that doesn’t recognize women will never succeed. “Girls don’t allow anyone to ruin your lives. It is time we say goodbye to early marriages and teen pregnancies because we will equally empower you and move…

By Alloys Musyoka Sexual exploitation and women going for a month without bathing have been mentioned as one of the main challenges facing women in the artisanal mining sector. Artisanal miners have called on the government and human rights organizations to intervene and save the worrying situation. Speaking during a panel discussion on Artisanal and small-scale miners’ perspectives on the mining governance in Kwale in the ongoing Jamvi la Madini Kwale forum, the miners said the situation is not good. “We came to realize that there are women who engage in sex with minerals buyers to have their products bought…

By Flora Awinja Women and minority groups in Ramisi, Kwale County have expressed their displeasure on how development projects are implemented by the County government. During an evaluation meeting of the first and second County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP), the groups said funds meant for development projects were not properly used. In the meeting, residents were sensitized on how to actively participate in the 2023-2027 CIDP public participation in a bid to ensure they put across projects they would want to be implemented in their ward. Mwalimu Ali from Muslim Advancement of Rights and Protection (MWARP) said the sensitization is…

By Flora Awinja section of human rights groups has raised concerns over the violation of business and human rights for small-scale miners in the extractives sector. This emerged during an advocacy training facilitated by Transparency International (TI) in Diani, Kwale County. Muslim Women Advancement Rights and Protection (MWARP) director Fakii Omar said that there is a need to address the violations committed against small-scale miners. “This training focused on how to tackle the challenges faced by small-scale miners like the artisanal and violations against them are reduced,” he said. Sheebah Oketch, a stakeholder from Kwale Mining Alliance, said the training…