Celebrating Echo’s the elephant’s life

If you have never heard of Echo, then you must know very little about elephants. Echo the Matriarch elephant perhaps the most famous of elephants that have ever lived in Kenya’s Amboseli has died.

She has been the leader of her family for over 36 years and through all of the research, books and media attention that has focused on her, she has become an icon for elephants.

One of the oldest metrach having survived the slaughter of her kind in the 80’s and early 90’s that saw Kenya’s elephant population reduced from 167,000 individuals elephants to about 16,000 through poaching. Read more

Sex-starved Kenyan sues over boycott

In what was seen as women power in Kenya, 10 civil society groups under the Gender 10 banner issued a sex boycott aimed at Kenya’s president Mwai Kibaki and Prime minister Raila Odinga to end squabbles in the coalition government.

The women said they could no longer sit back and watch the nation being torn apart by bickering and bad leadership by the coalition partners. Read more