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        <description><![CDATA[More Kenyans are increasingly finding companionship in adopted pets as urban shelters report rising demand and a steady shift away from buying animals.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[The bond between mother and child is tangible, believable and thoroughly human.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Many young people, on the other hand, are choosing solitude, preferring to enjoy their own company without the encumbrances of a relationship.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Kenyas falling birth rate reflects shifting economic pressures, changing gender roles, and rising&nbsp;costs&nbsp;that are&nbsp;reshaping&nbsp;family&nbsp;structures, relationships, and long-term population trends.]]></description>
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        <title>When sexual compliance replaces merit</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sextortion is quietly locking vulnerable Kenyans out of opportunities, replacing merit with coercion across industries.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[How Kenya quietly fell out of love with the local bar! The great nightlife shift. Why Kenyans are abandoning bars for cars, other private spaces]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Musicians from Samburu County have turned to music and dance as an innovative strategy to attract Generation Z voters.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Counselling psychologist and family therapist Nicoleta Mungai argues this also has something to do with responsibility, adding that nowadays some&nbsp;men&nbsp;prefer being kept by women.]]></description>
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