NAIVASHA, KENYA:There are 1.9 million child labourers in Kenya. The number, according to the European Union, accounts for 17 percent of minors in the country with majority aged between 5-17 years.

The Kenyan child is still confronted with violence at family level, forced marriage, labour exploitation and female genital mutilation, civil society groups have told the UN. This, they said, hinders ...

More than 43% of people in Kenya — many of them children — live in poverty. The current, devastating food crisis is forcing families who depend on livestock for their livelihoods continue to migrate ...

And whereas existing data shows that there are 1.3 million children involved in child labour in Kenya, children affairs specialists, are concerned this number could be conservative, meaning ...

Almost every country has committed to preventing child labor, but the issue persists through entrenched systemic drivers: the ...

The Ministry of Labour has rescued 133 children over the past eight months in suspected cases of child trafficking. Labour CS Alfred Mutua said the children were saved by officials from the ...