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Kenya at war with its women and children, damning report reveals

Gender Based Violence survivors and stakeholders match in Kisii town during the launch of 16 days of Gender Activism.(Sammy Omingo, Standard)

They came for blind women at night. Silently and repeatedly. In Trans Nzoia, visually impaired women told a government Technical Working of Gender-Based Violence, including Femicide, how unknown men slip into their homes at night, rape them and vanish before dawn.

Some are raising children from rape by men they do not know. Hundreds of kilometres away in Wajir, a four-year-old girl was defiled. Her tiny body ripped apart leaving intestines hanging out and dumped on the roadside.

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