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

27 Jun, 2024 05:06 EDT

Africa Society & Culture

As UN reports record number of internally displaced people now affected by climate disasters in Sudan, church 'remains a beacon of hope'

By Ken Kagicha

Sudan contributed to the highest global number of human displacement in 2023 according to a United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) report. Released days after observing World Refugee Day on June 20th, the UNHCR Global Trends report revealed that more than 7.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes in Sudan due to the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces that started in April 2023.
21 Jun, 2024 14:06 EDT

Africa Society & Culture

Kenya’s Gen Z use Biblical reference to lead protests against tax hike

By Ken Kagicha

Thousands of Kenyan youth demonstrated against the government’s plan to increase and introduce new taxes through a bill before parliament. Placards and slogans of ‘Zacchaeus, come down!’ were seen in the streets of the capital Nairobi and other cities across the country comparing President William Ruto’s ambitious tax plans to Zacchaeus the tax collector.
20 Jun, 2024 06:06 EDT

Caribbean Africa Society & Culture

Prayers, pastors and the police: Kenya’s plan to restore order in Haiti

By Ken Kagicha

Kenya’s plan to include a faith-based intervention in its US-backed mission to Haiti has been received with mixed feelings in both nations. The intervention, which has the endorsement of Kenya’s President William Ruto’s wife, Rachel, is being spearheaded by a few evangelical pastors from Kenya, Haiti and the US.
13 Jun, 2024 08:06 EDT

Africa Society & Culture

East Africa among four regions severely impacted by climate disasters in 2024 - Christian Aid Report

By Ken Kagicha

Adverse weather conditions over the last six months to June 2024 has led to thousands of deaths and an economic loss of $41 billion, at the very least. This is according to a report by Christian Aid that mapped the impact of extreme weather in four of the most affected regions in the world.
29 May, 2024 16:05 EDT

Africa Society & Culture

The Evangelical Alliance of South Africa urges citizens to keep leaders accountable regardless of who wins election

By Ken Kagicha Jim Olang

South Africa holds its local and national elections today in what will likely be the toughest election for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party that has been in power since the end of apartheid thirty years ago.
28 May, 2024 09:05 EDT

Europe Africa Society & Culture

UK PM postpones deportation flights to Rwanda until after July elections amidst ‘deep misgivings’ by Church leaders

By Ken Kagicha

United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has postponed the plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. Speaking during a campaign rally, Sunak said that the flights to Rwanda will commence immediately after the July 4 elections, if his Conservative Party wins the snap elections. Sunak had vowed that the flights will commence in July “come what may” even as the Labour Party pledges to reverse the policy if it takes over the government.
25 May, 2024 04:05 EDT

Africa Society & Culture

34 African countries spend more on debt payments than healthcare, education - Christian Aid Report

By Ken Kagicha

A report published by Christian Aid and its partners has revealed that more than half of African countries are spending a significant amount of their budgets on servicing debt at the expense of critical funding to sectors such as education, healthcare and infrastructure. The report titled Between Life and Debt reveals that African countries paid $85 billion in debt repayment to external creditors in 2023, the highest since 1998.
22 May, 2024 05:05 EDT

Family & Children Society & Culture

A transformational ministry in Kenya offers hope and reconciliation to juvenile offenders

By Ken Kagicha

A three-bedroom bungalow 30 kilometers outside of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, is providing a safe haven and a source of hope and transformation for young boys who have spent time in Kenya’s harsh juvenile prisons, the Youth Corrective Training Centres. Young boys between 12 and 17 years who face rejection at home have found solace and acceptance at the half-way house run by Life Song Kenya, with transformational results.
10 May, 2024 10:19 EDT

Africa Society & Culture

Demolition of homes, churches leaves hundreds of Liberian refugees in limbo in Ghana

By Ken Kagicha

Hundreds of Liberian refugees living in Ghana have been left destitute following the demolition of a section of a refugee camp, 45 kilometers outside of the country’s capital, Accra. The Buduburam refugee camp has been home to Liberians for 35 years after thousands fled two brutal civil wars between 1989 and 2003.
19 Apr, 2024 04:04 EDT

Africa Society & Culture

Africa’s youngest President sworn in, days after leaving prison

By Ken Kagicha

Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in as the country’s 5th president on 2 April, just 20 days after he left prison. The 44-year-old is now Africa’s youngest elected president following a dramatic win against former President Macky Sall’s preferred candidate, former Prime Minister Amadou Ba.
21 Mar, 2024 07:36 EDT

Africa Family & Children Religious Freedom

Alarm as 372 children kidnapped in Nigeria, Mozambique in one week

By Ken Kagicha

Schools are increasingly becoming a target of abductions in some parts of Africa triggering concerns over the violent expansion of radical groups and the safety of school-going children. In a span of 10 days in early March 2024, 372 children were reportedly kidnapped in Nigeria and Mozambique by armed men suspected to be either bandits involved in the herder-farmer conflicts or Islamist militants.
15 Mar, 2024 05:03 EDT

Africa Society & Culture

Popular South African musician surrenders life to Christ after near-death experience

By Ken Kagicha

South African award-winning songwriter, DJ and record producer, Nkosinathi Maphumulo, has narrated his near-death experience in South America that contributed to his decision to follow Jesus. In an interview with Kaya FM presenter Thabo Mokwele, Maphumulo, who is better known by his stage name DJ Black Coffee, said that an airplane accident on his way to Argentina made him seriously rethink his life decisions.

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