Ken Kagicha

Deputy Africa Editor

Ken Kagicha has over 12 years of experience working as a reporter and editor for print, broadcast and digital news platforms in Kenya.

Articles by Ken Kagicha

11 Feb, 2025 09:59 EST

Africa Religious Freedom

Nairobi to host Africa’s first International Religious Freedom Summit

By Ken Kagicha

Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, will host Africa’s first International Religious Freedom Summit on 16th June 2025. Kenya’s Chief Justice Martha Koome announced that the inaugural meeting will gather judicial officers and organisations working to promote religious freedom from across the continent.
4 Feb, 2025 06:02 EST

Africa Church & Missions Society & Culture

MC Popo: Spreading hope and the love of Christ through dance in Kenya’s biggest slum

By Ken Kagicha

In the heart of Kibra, Kenya’s biggest informal settlement just 10 kilometers from Nairobi’s Central Business District, you will find Aziri Come Kazudi popularly known as MC Popo either teaching children how to dance, leading a Bible Study or counseling teens caught up in crime or drug abuse.
30 Jan, 2025 07:35 EST

Africa Church & Missions

Anglican Communion's Nairobi-Cairo proposals seek to overcome divisive issues, preserve unity

By Ken Kagicha

The Anglican Communion's recently released draft measures attempt to handle divisive contemporary issues such as ordination of women and treatment of same-sex marriage within the Anglican Church that spans 165 countries. The proposals also redefine some of the responsibilities of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
29 Jan, 2025 06:50 EST

Africa Society & Culture

Femicide in Kenya increased in 2024 despite public outcry: perpetrators mostly husbands, boyfriends, family members

By Ken Kagicha

The year 2024 saw a marked increase of women being murdered in Kenya despite a heightened awareness of the crisis and government measures to curb what the World Health Organisation terms as femicide. This is according to a report published by Kenyan media and research organisations, African Uncensored and OdipoDev, that recorded at least 170 women killed last year: one woman every other day.
24 Jan, 2025 05:40 EST

Africa Society & Culture

Apple faces investigation over use of conflict minerals in DR Congo

By Ken Kagicha

Technology giant Apple Inc. is under investigation for allegedly using minerals sourced from conflict-hit zones in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to lawyers representing the central African country. The DRC alleges that Apple’s subsidiaries and supply partners used minerals from mines controlled by armed rebel groups in Eastern Congo, where a variety of atrocities have been reported.
21 Jan, 2025 06:01 EST

US & Canada Africa Society & Culture

WATCH: Nigerian worship leader Pastor Nathaniel Bassey ministers at Trump’s Inaugural Prayer Breakfast

By Ken Kagicha

Nigerian gospel minister Nathaniel Bassey was one of the invited guests who performed at President Donald Trump’s inaugural prayer breakfast on January 20, 2025. Referencing Psalm 24:1, Bassey said “America is the Lord’s and the fullness of” before breaking into worship songs with his signature trumpet. Bassey was joined on stage by Reverend Merrie Turner, the host of the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast as they sang “Glory glory hallelujah” together.
16 Jan, 2025 08:20 EST

Africa Society & Culture

Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty: A life-line for 62 people on death row

By Ken Kagicha

The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, signed into law the Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024) effectively removing the death penalty sentence in the penal code. Although the Southern Africa country has not carried out death sentences for nearly two decades, 62 people who had been sentenced to death will be resentenced or have their death sentences commuted.
8 Jan, 2025 07:50 EST

Africa Society & Culture

Ghanaian coach steers war-torn Sudan football team to Africa’s top tournament 'by God’s grace'

By Ken Kagicha

Sudan’s national football team remarkably qualified for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) despite an on-going civil war that has engulfed the country for nearly two years. The team’s head coach, Ghanaian Kwesi Appiah, gave “glory to God” for the qualification amidst a devastating civil war and stiff competition from other teams.
21 Nov, 2024 05:11 EST

Society & Culture

Part-time Pastor, presidential candidate calls for protests after disputed Mozambique elections

By Ken Kagicha

Part-time pastor and politician, Venâncio Mondlane, urged his supporters to participate in peaceful nationwide demonstrations from November 13th to 15th to protest against alleged vote rigging. Mondlane, who ran as an independent candidate after the main opposition backed another candidate in the October 9th general elections, maintains that the elections did not reflect the wishes of the people.
19 Nov, 2024 08:11 EST

Africa Church & Missions

Burn out, stress and family care: 350 missionaries gather in Kenya to share lessons and solutions

By Ken Kagicha

The 4th Global Member Care Network conference held in Maanzoni, 35 kilometers outside of Nairobi, Kenya, gathered over 350 participants including 80 speakers from around the world to deliberate and learn how missionaries and their families can be supported to do effective and impactful work in the mission field.
14 Nov, 2024 08:11 EST

Africa Church & Missions

One fatality, several YWAM staff injured in bus accident in Nigeria

By Ken Kagicha

A multi-vehicle accident near the coastal town of Badagry, 70 kilometres from Lagos, Nigeria turned fatal, claiming the life of a Youth With A Mission (YWAM) staff while several others were rushed to nearby hospitals with various injuries.
5 Nov, 2024 14:11 EST

Africa Church & Missions

Doing missions the African way: ambitious plan to setup 54 national mission associations to track the spread of the gospel in Africa

By Ken Kagicha

The Africa Mission Association is on a mission to help churches in Africa establish mission associations in all 54 countries from the current seven in the continent. Stephen Mbogo, the Vice Chair of the Africa Mission Association (AMA) is alive to the enormous task but equally aware of the great opportunity to formalize country mission associations that would be a source of coordinating and supporting missions in respective countries.

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