A growing network of Catholic sisters in Samburu is introducing an alternative initiation ceremony that is slowly reducing female genital cutting in one of the country's most resistant regions.

CNN — Umoja Village, Samburu County, Kenya — Rosalina Learpoora has always been surrounded by women. At age 18, she lives in an all-women village in northern Kenya, where she spends her evenings doing ...

In the recent past, residents of Samburu County have been increasingly affected by extreme drought. Most families that rely on livestock were left without a source of livelihood after drought wiped ...

Umoja village is home to dozens of families, but no men Women applied for community title to nearby grazing land Women in Kenya own less than 2% of all titled land UMOJA, Kenya, March 22 (Thomson ...