Why Kenya is at war with its women and children

Demonstration in Kisii town over Femicide cases during the 16 days of Gender Activism. [File, 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.