I am a journalist with tonnes of experience in broadcast journalism. When I am not telling stories, I am chilling on the farm.
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Vihiga County has reduced reported malaria cases in pregnancy by 46%, from 1,024 in 2023 to 551 in 2025.
Community Health Promoters are helping make this progress possible by tracing mothers who miss clinic visits & linking them back to health facilities to receive preventive treatment.
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A lesser-known malaria parasite, Plasmodium vivax, is emerging and spreading in Wajir County, raising new public health concerns.
Defrontera brought journalists and health experts together to unpack this overlooked threat and why Kenya needs to pay attention.
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BREAKING. Kenya has confirmed the country's first Ebola case. The patient was a Kenyan living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Health Cabinet Secretary @HonAdenDuale has confirmed that the patient died on Monday evening while receiving treatment.
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Today marks a year since @FIGOHQ instituted the global day of World Post Partum Haemorrhage Day. PPH remains the deadliest complication in childbirth. In Kenya, Makueni County has successfully tackled PPH.
See how:
youtu.be/FCyAhT9nYXU?si=zmTs…
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Read about the campaign here: DRC: Amnesty International launches “6 million Voices for Justice for Congo” campaign, in renewed push for accountability for crimes under international law. amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
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New Episode: Amnesty in Africa Podcast 🎙️🕯️
In this episode, we discuss the human rights situation in the DRC and our latest report, “We didn’t come to play”: M23 abuses at artisanal mines and the Trafficking of gold and coltan to Rwanda.
open.spotify.com/episode/4PB…
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"No one leaves home unless home is a mouth of a shark." Full poem by Warshan Shire, here. poetryinternational.com/en/p…
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We call on donors to listen to communities,invest in local organizations and support locally led malaria responses that reach the people who are hardest to reach.Malaria is preventable and treatable,what communities need is sustained commitment,resources and action. #localization #EndMalaria #CommunityLed
@EUAmbKenya @USEmbassyKenya @MOH_Kenya @ReproRightsAFR @PSKenya_
@StopTB @GlobalFund @UNICEFKenya @defronteramedia
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Patients in Wajir County recovered from malaria after treatment. However, weeks or months later, it returned, even without another mosquito bite. This type of malaria can hide in the liver and strike again. Can Kenya's clinics detect it and stop it returning?
"The Other Malaria" premieres on 10 August. #TheOtherMalaria #DeadliestBite
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"Not that any malaria is worse than the other but this is the type we dont want anywhere in our cities," a malaria official told us.
Coming this Monday, with @Mawathe on @defronteramedia. – at Nairobi, Kenya
Patients in Wajir County recovered from malaria after treatment. However, weeks or months later, it returned, even without another mosquito bite. This type of malaria can hide in the liver and strike again. Can Kenya's clinics detect it and stop it returning?
"The Other Malaria" premieres on 10 August. #TheOtherMalaria #DeadliestBite
youtube.com/shorts/s4Xwr_vjD…
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Today I did an interview with the Panel 54 podcast here in Nairobi. We had a really urgent conversation about the reality of toxic skin-lightening products and chemical exposures in the African region and globally.
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. @MOH_Kenya is considering replacing its gold-standard health surveys and shifting to facility-based data, after the U.S. government terminated the survey’s funding in 2026.
However, experts warn that the communities who never reach hospitals could be left behind.
@Mawathe dives into how the push to digitalise health may be deepening inequalities for those who need data most.
#MaternalHealth #DigitalHealth #HealthData
Dear @Safaricom_Care my data has been disappearing at an alarming rate and I cannot understand why. I bought 44 gb yesterday, and by close of day, I still had no data. I tried calling your number repeatedly but it was impossible to get through. What is happening?
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Today opened with one of the hardest conversations we'll have this week: stillbirths. An estimated nearly 2 million stillbirths happen every year, and the vast majority are preventable.
The speakers did not shy away from the uncomfortable truth that too often, #stillbirth is treated as an invisible loss, one that doesn't get counted, discussed, or prioritized in the way it should.
A baby who was never born alive is still a baby who was loved and expected. That grief deserves acknowledgment, and that death deserves prevention, and that is what #IMNHC2026 is looking forward to.@alignmnh
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Kenya becomes the first country to join a global health initiative to reduce the deaths of newborns, as the country looks for solutions to reduce the deaths that have not decreased for the last 15 years.#IMNCH2026 @alignmnh @Jhpiego @JhpiegoKenya @MOH_Kenya
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International Maternal Newborn Health Conference (#IMNHC2026),congregates 1,800 health specialists, innovators, government officials, researchers & advocates from 60 countries to talk about maternal and neonatal health. In person or virtually, register to report about the IMNHC2026 here 👇
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Even before the Stop Work Order last year, Kenya raised KES 2.7B for TB in 2023 — against a required KES 7.22B. That’s a funding gap of over 60%. How are counties adapting? Join our webinar with Kajiado’s TB & Leprosy Coordinator Joseph Sankok to learn how the county is sustaining TB care despite shrinking donor funding.
Register ow.ly/spfs50Yuxv4
#TB #GlobalHealth #Kenya
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“The untold want by life and land ne’er granted,
Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.”
— Walt Whitman, “The Untold Want”
That poem is the guiding light for Now Voyager, a new bi-monthly print magazine devoted to longform international journalism co-founded by Nicolas Niarchos and Hélène Werner.
Nick (@PerneInAGyre) and Hélène describe the magazine as finding “its specific geography somewhere between a foreign desk briefing, a literary review and a cultural notebook.” It’s a publication that crosses borders — highlighting issues and new voices from around the world — through compelling stories, beautiful artwork and vivid photography, with dedicated sections on food and humor too.
The magazine’s first cover image sets the tone: a gorgeous watercolor by Camille Henrot that, as the editors put it, “captures the moment where a text begins. There will be twists and turns ahead, but this instant is illuminated, quiet.” The issue also features a portfolio of her work.
At last night's gathering at Les Ateliers Courbet gallery, we also celebrated print despite all the obituaries about the death of longform journalism! And I photographed Malù dalla Piccola (the artist who is also married to Nick) in front of the wall of her original illustrations of the writers and editors.
Congratulations to Nick, Hélène and the entire team on a glorious debut. Visit their website nowvoyagermag.com to explore what they’re building and subscribe.
