Kenya not among the top countries with high teenage marriages prevalence

Photo- A pregnant student. Kenya is grappling with high cases of pregnancies among students.

Kenya does not rank highly among the counties in the whole world with high prevalence of child marriages, a United Nations Report shows. This is despite the many pregnancy cases reported for candidates sitting this year’s  Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, and Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, KCPE, examinations. The United Nations Entity for … Read more

Education and Teenage pregnancies- First Lady Margaret Kenyatta wants all teenage mothers to be brought back to school

Photo- Kenya's First Lady Margaret Kenyatta (Holding a baby). She is advocating for the reintegration of teenage mothers into schools to give them a chance to complete their education.

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta wants teenage mothers reintegrated into schools to give them a chance to complete their education. She said early pregnancies should not mean a dead end to the education of girls or condemn the young mothers to misery and poverty associated with illiteracy. The Kenyan First Lady spoke at the Women’s Centre … Read more

ICT Cabinet Secretary asks the Communication Authority to close porn sites

Pornographic sites in Uganda blocked

Ministry of Information Communications and Technology (ICT) Cabinet Secretary, Joe Mucheru has asked the Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK) to start filtering porn sites like Pornhub . This is in a bid to curb the rising cases of teenage pregnancies in Kenya. This comes after the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) chairman, Professor George Magoha, … Read more