In 1995, three months to the high profile UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, the late retired President Daniel Moi appointed her to the Cabinet. She consequently led the Kenyan delegation of about 450 women to the key international meeting. With that appointment, her name had entered history books-as the country’s first
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In four days, the world will focus its attention on the women as the international community seeks to stand together and, with one voice, celebrate the progress and achievements of the female gender. WON Executive Director Njeri Rugene writes on Daily Nation. Click here for more…
Charity Ngilu, the second governor of Kitui County and one of the two elected women county bosses, thrust herself into Kenya’s presidential race after being in politics for barely five years, as an MP, and after only one parliamentary term. The then Kitui Central MP, alongside the late Prof Wangari Maathai, made history with the
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