Female Kenyan MPs blast polygamy law

The impact of polygamy on Kenya's women

Kenya's president signs into law a bill allowing men to take as many wives as they wish without consulting existing partners.

>A law allowing men in Kenya to marry as many women as they want has been signed into law by President Uhuru Kenyatta, despite criticism from women’s groups. A statement from the presidency confirmed that the Bill, which it said “consolidates various laws relating to marriage”, had been signed into law.

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UN Women's executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka speaks to BBC Africa about Rwanda's leading role in gender equality.

 The new female MPs from different political parties will join the usual suspects such as the ruling CCM’s Jenista Mhagama representing Peramiho constituency in Ruvuma Region and Chadema’s Halima Mdee representing Kawe constituency in Dar es Salaam Region.

At the close of a two-day seminar on how to fight dynamite fishing, which was held in Tanga Region last October, it was apparent that the participants, including scientists, fisheries officers, police, magistrates, journalists and fishers showed were unhappy that dynamite fishing was still active along Tanzania’s 800-kilometre long coastal line.








Singer Akothee wants to cement her name in the list of high flying Kenyans by buying her own private jet.
For a while, Akothee has been hiring private choppers to facilitate her movement around the country but now it seems she is tired of traveling in someone else’s chopper. She was seen window shopping for planes and word quickly started spreading she wanted to buy her own private jet.


Many may doubt whether she has the cash to buy a private jet but then again Akothee has proved a couple of...

Kenyan MPs trade blows, and one has his shirt torn, amid a chaotic parliamentary session called to push through a tough new security bill.