Figures of the week: Kenya’s growth trends and prospects in Africa’s Lions (Amy Copley, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/11/02/figures-of-the-week-kenyas-growth-trends-and-prospects-in-africas-lions/

Kenya attack: 12 killed in Mandera 'by al-Shabab' (Al Jazeera)

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/kenya-attack-12-killed-mandera-al-shabab-161025063500398.html

Al-Shabab blamed for attack in northeast Kenya (Al Jazeera)

At least six people killed in attack on residential building in border region often targeted by Somali armed group.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/al-shabab-blamed-attack-northeast-kenya-161006052130719.html

How the search for oil is inflaming tensions in Kenya (Lisa Laventure, Al Jazeera)

James Rotich's parents struggled to send him to school. Only during the good years, when there was enough rain and the maize grew high, would they choose a goat from the herd to sell to cover his fees. Decades later, when the oil company arrived, it occurred to him that life could be different for his own children.

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Interview: Kenya’s Forgotten Rape Survivors (HRW)

Although it is more than eight years since hundreds of women were brutally raped during post-election violence in Kenya, the harrowing events of 2007/8 continue to affect survivors to this day. Destitute, in ill health and often ostracized by their family and community, many recall their ordeal as if it had happened yesterday. While the Kenyan government compensated people who were displaced at the time, many survivors of sexual violence have neither been compensated nor seen justice. Agnes Odhiambo, senior researcher in the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, interviewed survivors countrywide for her new report. She talked to Birgit Schwarz about their pain and why it is important to tell their stories.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/02/15/interview-kenyas-forgotten-rape-survivors