Trust no more: At least one woman in 18-35 age bracket is murdered daily in Kenya as femicide numbers soar
According to recent Counting the Cost: A Decade of Femicide in Kenya – 2025/2026 data collected and collated by africadatahub.org in partnership with africauncensored.online and odipodev.com over 1,000 women were killed in Kenya between 2016 and 2025.
Report: When Tigrayan conflict ended in Ethiopia it triggered a surge in rape and violence against women
Women can be double victims. An entrenched cultural idea of a woman’s “purity” often stigmatises survivors – forcing them into silence. They are left alone to bear the burden of what they have been forced to endure as communities become desensitised to the horror.
