Esther Chepokorio milking her goats at Masol area, West Pokot county.[Irissheel Shanzu,Standard] It’s 6am in Masol, West Pokot, and Selina Kipkirkir is already in her cowshed milking cows and goats.

Nomadic pastoralist women who used to be dependent on their husbands are creatively changing the lives of their families in Kenya’s West Pokot County. Women were not allowed to own property according ...

The outdated female genital mutilation pratice in West Pokot has led to widespread early marriages. Young girls undergo public ridicule if they do not get the cut. Recently in Endough ward in ...

The desire to be a part of the Pokot culture in Kenya has brought a lot of anger towards American missionary Trizah Estes and her husband Tony Estes who decided to go through all the traditional Pokot ...

Pressure from mothers-in-law and husbands has been blamed for rising cases of Female Genital mutilation (FGM) in West Pokot County. In a county where illiteracy levels are at 67 per cent, the ...

Family dynamics changing its traditions for Pokot women who earn money by selling decorative beads internationally. Nomadic pastoralist women who used to be dependent on their husbands are creatively ...

• Elders from the area say the tree fell facing the East, which means success. • The elder said the fall signifies the end of a certain era and new things are going to happen in the region.

The Baringo County government is grappling with the tendency of Pokot families not to pick up the bodies of their loved ones from hospital mortuaries. Most people in the community refuse to bury the ...

It is a seven-and-a-half-hour drive northwest of Nairobi, much of it on bumpy dirt roads, to reach Tangulbei. It’s a small town, with a population only 4,979, in the heart of the territory of the semi ...