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Allan Olingo
Verified
News Editor, Daily Nation
Kenya, Nairobi
Beats
Football , Karate , Handball , Hockey , Athletics
Sports, music, business
Content
By Winnie Byanyima, Neha Wadekar Verified, Allan Olingo Verified, Eliza Anyangwe| Fuller Project for International Reporting Verified GOLINI, KENYA – Saumu Mwavugadi gazed from her veranda past mud-walled chicken coops and umbrella-like acacia trees to a vast horizon of hills. The heat was unrelenting on this March day, and Mwavugadi cradled her two-week-old daughter in her arms. She was wracked with despair. “How will I get my baby vaccinated?” Mwavugadi worried aloud. “Postnatal clinics feel like an impossible dream,” she said in Swahili.
By Allan Olingo Verified| Fuller Project for International Reporting Verified Every March, as part of International Women’s Month, global leaders gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a two-week session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The Commission is the leading global body dedicated to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
By sanket jain, Allan Olingo Verified, Eliza Anyangwe| Fuller Project for International Reporting Verified On Mother’s Day in 1974, a group of women headed to New York’s Prospect Park with a stack of flyers and pressed them into caregivers’ hands. “All women are unwaged workers,” the flyers read. “We work from morning to night, but at the end of the week, we have no money to show for it…We want wages for housework!”Their call to recognize and compensate unpaid domestic labor — work largely done by women – was radical. But it struck a chord.
Company Info
Daily Nation
Nation Media Group (NMG) is the largest independent media house in East and Central Africa, established in 1959 by His Highness the Aga Khan. Originally founded as East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, NMG has grown into a multi-media organization with operations in print, broadcast, and digital media across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. NMG publishes several prominent newspapers, including the Daily Nation in Kenya, the Monitor in Uganda, and Mwananchi in Tanzania, which are among the most widely circulated in the region. The group also operates radio and television stations in Kenya, providing a mix of news, entertainment, and educational content. Additionally, NMG maintains a strong online presence with digital editions of its newspapers and various platforms that cater to a global audience. Committed to integrity and transparency, NMG aims to positively influence social, economic, and political progress through its journalism.
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Founded: 1959