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Faith Kipyegon is the first person to win the Olympic 1500m title 3 times! And made a new Olympic record too.
Gold in Rio, Tokyo and now in Paris 2024.
#cw. Warning: Scary pictures. Hello beautiful people, I hope y'all have had a great day. These are your queer siblings in Kenya once again looking for your support. The voiceless lgbtiqa refugees in Kenya going through torture and lives lost. We condemn these acts, laws and bills against lgbtiqa
Our houses were being set on a blaze and now looking for where to sleep. Are voices are not heard because Kenya does not allow gay marriage but instead the communities in Kenya keep fighting us and now they burnt down our homesteads. Our people were caught in the fire and are nursing wounds as y'all can see in the pictures below. For those that may want to donate, please donate below as we are looking forward to getting money so that we can enclose our community with a fence and limit such attacks. We are sure with one love plus solidarity we shall have peace for all queers everywhere.
Let's collect $3000 and we put up a terrific ironsheet fence. Very sure it will helpus a lot.
We also struggle to get food as we are not allowed to work in any company or organisation due to our gender but instead the support we get from y'all keeps us satisfied with food and medicine. Please continue with that heart.
Gofundme
Let's be one, let's transform lives of all queers
This Pride don’t forget your brothers and sisters fighting for their rights all over the world.
Never forget who the real victims are in the war on terror. It’s not just the dozens in Europe, it’s the millions in the Middle East… Say no to the restriction of your liberties in the war on terror and say no to killing our fellow brethren caught in this imperialist madhouse campaign..
Help educate teens about sex health and reproductive rights by supporting the Murua Teens Festival!
A group of women in central Kenya are on their way to harvest prickly pear that will be turned into biogas.
The cactus is an invasive species which is disturbing the ecosystem.
Its encroachment hinders wildlife navigation as well as reducing grazing areas. Some animals which consume the plant's fruit can suffer from digestive issues due to its small hairs.
Now a women's group in Laikipia County has transformed the problem into a new enterprise.
We are also able to manage natural resources and that is why we are also coming with an idea of making biogas out of the cactus and also selling fruits and generate income that helps us to educate o-ur children."
The fruits from the cactus are edible if separated from their sharp spines.
The Twala women at Laikipia Permaculture therefore use all parts of the fruit, creating a range of products including jams that are then sold.
"We get the fruit from the women's group. We wash them, we grind them to separate the pearl and the seed," Serah Wangare, a juicer at Laikipia Permaculture explained.
"The seed we put them in the drier which we grind them to get the oil, the oil we give it back to the women's group which they then use to make cosmetics, the shower gel, the body lotion. And (from) the pearl we make the juice and the jam."
In Kenya, where lions are killed to protect livestock, inventor Richard Turere has developed a system to ward off lions and other predators from livestock using renewable energy-powered light sequences.
After testing several ideas, Turere’s invention, known as Lion Lights, is based on a simple concept, replicating the human presence that keeps lions away. Using changing sequences of flashing lights, the lions cannot become comfortable with the patterns. The system typically runs on solar energy but can also be coupled with wind power when the weather is cloudy or there is little sun.
The renewable energy light system has attracted international attention and has been implemented in several other countries beyond Kenya, including Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia, Argentina and India, where it has helped deter various species of animals, such as hyenas, leopards and cheetahs.
As word of his technology spread, other community members began requesting the system for their properties, and now over 2,000 homes in Kenya use Lion Lights. Since Lion Lights were installed, no lions have been killed in the area. A recent animal census at Nairobi National Park has seen an increase of 15% in their lion population.
As Turere explains: “Our motto at Lion Lights is that there is no existence without co-existence. For us to be able to live in this world harmoniously, we’ll have to find a way of living peacefully with each other, humans and wildlife.”
Yesterday, here on tumblr, someone reached out to me, seeking help. And now I am here seeking yours. I don't care about your opinions and views. The matter of the fact is that everyone deserves to be treated as human beings, and they deserve the rights of human beings as we all do.
Right now, we have a violation of the LGBTQ+ community in Uganda after its government passed one of the harshest anti-gay laws, which includes punishment by death.
Here are two Al Jazeera articles on this:
1. Displaced twice: Gay Ugandans on the run face upheaval in Kenya
2. Ugandas anti lgbtq law causing wave of rights abuses activists say
Yesterday, @annoyingpaintertragedy (please take a look at their blog) reached out to me regarding this. They mentioned that many of Ugandas lgbtq civilians were forced to flee Uganda to neighboring Kenya. But situations are just as bad in Kenya. They spoke of the Kakuma refugee camps where they now live along with many other refugees.
I myself am just now learning of this. But if you have any information or links of organizations that may help regarding this situation, please send them to me or add them to the reblogs.
Bis noch vor etwa 100 Jahren waren Elefanten auf dem gesamten afrikanischen Kontinent verbreitet. Die Wilderei für den Elfenbeinhandel hat sie in weiten Gebieten ausgerottet: Afrikanische Elefanten leben heute nur noch südlich der Sahara. Der größte Bestand befindet sich im südlichen Afrika, insbesondere in Botswana.
Until about 100 years ago, elephants were common across the African continent. Poaching for the ivory trade has wiped them out in large areas: African elephants now only live south of the Sahara. The largest population is in southern Africa, especially in Botswana.
Doldol (rescued orphan) & Mishak (Keeper), Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (SWT), Elephant Nursery, Nairobi National Park, Kenya 🇰🇪 🐘 👨🏿 💞
"Wild-born babies remind us that by saving one orphan, we are giving life to generations of elephants."
Public burning of 12 tons of ivory confiscated from poachers. Kenya, 1989
An amazing speech by Kenya at the UN Security Council regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 22/02/2022 (video excerpt from this reddit post)
Transcript:
Kenya is gravely concerned by the announcement made by the Russian Federation to recognise Donetsk and Luhansk Regions of Ukraine as independent states. In our considered view, this action and announcement breaches the territorial integrity of Ukraine. We do not deny that there may be serious security concerns in these regions, but they cannot justify today’s recognition of these regions as independent states. Not when there are multiple diplomatic tracks available and underway that have the ability to offer peaceful solutions.
Mr President, this situation echoes our history. Kenya and almost every African country was birthed by the ending of empires. Our borders were not of our own drawing. They were drawn in the distant colonial metropolis of London, Paris and Lisbon with no regard for the ancient nations that they cleaved apart. Today, across the border of every single African country live our countrymen with whom we share deep historical, cultural and linguistic bonds. At independence, had we chosen to pursue states on the basis of ethnic, racial or religious homogeneity, we would still be waging bloody wars these many decades later. Instead, we agreed that we would settle for the borders that we inherited, but we would still pursue continental, political, economic and legal integration. Rather than form nations that looked ever-backword into history with a dangerous nostalgia, we chose to look forward to a greatness none of our nations and many peoples had ever known. We chose to follow the rules of the Organisation of African Unity and the United Nations Charter; not because our borders satisfied us, but because we wanted something greater forged in peace.
We believe that all states formed from empires that have collapsed or retreated have many peoples in them yearning for integration from people in neighbouring states. This is normal and understandable. After all, who does not want to be joined to the brethren and to make common purpose with them? However, Kenya rejects such a yearning from being pursued by force. We must complete our recovery from the embers of dead empires in a way that does not plunge us back into new forms of domination and oppression. We rejected irredentism and expansionism on any basis including racial, ethnic, religious or cultural factors. We reject it again today.
Kenya registers its strong concern and opposition to the recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. We further strongly condemn the trend in the last few decades of powerful states including members of this security council breaching international law with little regard.
