Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Kenya’s femicide cases need national action: declare a crisis now – scholar

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par Awino Okech, Professor of Feminist and Security Studies, SOAS, University of London

Ugandan athlete and Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei died in September 2024 after being set alight by a man she knew in Eldoret, Kenya. Cheptegei’s murder was reported to have been about a conflict over land ownership. Her attacker, Dickson Ndiema, has since died from injuries sustained in the attack.

Cheptegei is not the first woman athlete to be murdered in Kenya. In 2021, Agnes Tirop, an Olympic runner, was

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