As you walk or drive past any street in Nairobi, its environs, or any other location you find yourself in Kenya, it is not uncommon to see children playing at times when they ought to be in school studying, but they’re at home. Community WhatsApp groups are flooded with appeals, whether for medical support, burial expenses, school fees or even individuals on the brink randomly requesting any amount just to put food on the table. Businesses and most people on payrolls no longer feel the benefits; it’s becoming harder to keep businesses afloat, and the deductions on the pays lips are painful. In the end, it’s Mwanainchi bearing the full brunt.

NAIROBI, 18 JUNE 2026: Amnesty International Kenya welcomes the publication of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) Framework for Reparations for Victims of Human Rights Violations, including those arising from demonstrations and public protests. This framework is a significant milestone in Kenya’s ongoing pursuit of truth, justice, accountability, and reparations.

NAIROBI, 16 JUNE 2026: Amnesty International welcomes the announcement by Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Health, Aden Duale, that the Government of Kenya has suspended the construction of the proposed US government-funded Ebola Quarantine Facility in Nanyuki, Kenya, in compliance with the court order issued pending the determination of the case.

Join Amnesty International Kenya for an exclusive evening as we officially launch the Public Defenders Fund, a new initiative dedicated to supporting and protecting individuals and communities who courageously stand up for human rights and justice and everything that’s right.

A landmark constitutional petition challenged the application of Kenya’s Sexual Offenses Act to consensual, non-coercive relationships between adolescents. The case was brought by three young people directly affected by criminal prosecutions and the Network for Adolescent and Youth of Africa (NAYA), a youth and child rights organisation.

The violent disruption of a public procession and arrest of nine environmentalists, including a former Chief Justice, on 8 June elevated the proposed development in Nairobi National Park to international public attention. As the matter heads to court later this month, what is at stake, and what would a win–win outcome look like?

Nairobi, 10 June 2026 — Amnesty International Kenya is gravely concerned by the reported abduction of businessman Athorbey Al‑Gaddhaffy‑Dit (also known as Gadafi Athorbey Guet), a citizen of Kenya, in Nairobi in the early hours of today.

Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya

On the night of May 27, 2026, a dormitory at Utumishi Girls Academy in Gilgil caught fire. Sixteen students died and 79 others were injured when a fire tore through the Meline Waithera block, a dormitory housing approximately 220 students. In the days that followed, CCTV footage from inside the dormitory went viral, broadcast on television, shared across WhatsApp, dissected on X. The footage aired by a local TV station showed students walking through the dormitory moments before the fire broke out, revealing how persons of interest moved from cube to cube before the blaze erupted near the exit points, trapping dozens of students who were still sleeping.  Then a second conversation started- quieter, but just as uncomfortable. CCTV footage showed girls inside their dormitory. They were minors. They hadn’t consented to being filmed. They hadn’t consented to their images being broadcast on national television. And now, some of them are facing murder charges partly based on that footage.

On 5 June 2026, Amnesty International Kenya convened a hybrid Amnesty Kikao under the theme 2 Years Post #OccupyParliament: Are We on the Right Track to Protect the Right to Protest? The discussion brought together human rights defenders, lawyers, civil society actors, students, and members of the public to reflect on the state of the constitutional right to peaceful assembly and protest in Kenya.

NAIROBI, 8 JUNE 2026: Friends of Nairobi National Park, Just Act, United Green Movement Party, The Green Belt Movement, Amnesty International Kenya, and Greenpeace Africa strongly condemns the arrest of nine peaceful protesters, including former Chief Justice David Maraga, and the violent dispersal of a peaceful procession of environmental defenders, students, and human rights activists advocating for the protection of Nairobi National Park.

Thursday’s arrest of Nairobi’s Urban Planning Chief Officer, Patrick Analo Akivaga, his wife, and the seizure of tens of millions hidden in his Syokimau home read like a movie script. While his conduct has long attracted public concern, this moment must not be reduced to the wrongdoing of an individual. We must also focus on the deeper systemic and relational failures that enabled him to thrive at City Hall.