How AI is supercharging digital Gender-Based Violence crisis in Kenya

Brenda Oyiko Awinja, a victim of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence during the interview in Nairobi, on November 30, 2025. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

It began with a single message, an unexpected ping. Then another followed, and another, until the notifications no longer came quietly to her phone but spilled into her WhatsApp groups, professional circles, and finally into the hands of people she loved.