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  • 2 months ago | nytimes.com | Tara Todras-Whitehill |Sarah Hurtes

    The road to success has been full of obstacles. Many of the women who signed up, like Ms. Atieno, had never before driven a motorbike, let alone a car. They have faced harassment from passengers and fellow drivers. Their husbands voiced disapproval. Image Monica Atieno, left, and her husband, Stephen Ochieng, who are now both motorcycle taxi drivers, outside their home near the town of Ukwala in western Kenya.

  • Jan 19, 2025 | phillytrib.com | Sarah Hurtes

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  • Dec 29, 2024 | nytimes.com | Sarah Hurtes

    The congregation in Nairobi, Kenya, has been forced to move to 10 different locations over 10 years, and yet it has survived as a sanctuary in an increasingly hostile environment. Pastor Caroline Omolo. Credit... Kang-Chun Cheng for The New York Times For nearly a decade, Kenya's only church led and attended by L.G.B.T.Q. people has been chased out of one location after another. Vandals hit the first location, a center for sex workers, church members said.

  • Dec 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Sarah Hurtes

    The congregation in Nairobi, Kenya, has been forced to move to 10 different locations over 10 years, and yet it has survived as a sanctuary in an increasingly hostile environment. Pastor Caroline Omolo. Credit... Kang-Chun Cheng for The New York Times For nearly a decade, Kenya's only church led and attended by L.G.B.T.Q. people has been chased out of one location after another. Vandals hit the first location, a center for sex workers, church members said.

  • Dec 2, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Selam Gebrekidan |Justin Scheck |Sarah Hurtes |Pete McKenzie

    Robert F. Kennedy jnr hasn't just been promoting conspiracy theories and vaccine scepticism in the US, he has also spent years working abroad to undermine policies that have been pillars of global health policy for a half-century. Photo / Uli Seit / The New York TimesRobert F. Kennedy jnr, who is in line to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the next Trump administration, is well-known for promoting conspiracy theories and vaccine scepticism in the United States.