Kenyan Women Protest Failure to Implement Gender Rule

Hundreds of women marched through Nairobi on Monday to protest the president's failure to name women to at least one-third of government positions, as Kenya's constitution requires.  Two weeks ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta unveiled a Cabinet shakeup, naming nine people for high-ranking government positions. Not one of the nominees was a woman.  The president also dropped all five women from his earlier Cabinet. Activists — led by Wangeci Wachira, the head of the...

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