Garissa, in northeastern Kenya, lies six hours (367 km) from the capital Nairobi. Scorched by heat, its lifeline is the muddy Tana River, which winds along the edge of town, sustaining nearly 950,000 people. But this region is increasingly at the mercy of climate change, with floods and droughts wreaking havoc on already marginalised communities. .....

My name is Genet Shume and I am the programme director for ActionAid Ethiopia. I am passionate about women’s rights and justice for women. I studied law as my first degree and worked for the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, and then the Federal Supreme Court Child Justice Project Office, before joining ActionAid. We provided free.....

My name is Zamzam Hassan. I am a 29 year-old Somali woman born and raised in Garissa County in northeastern Kenya, 367kms from the capital, Nairobi. Garissa has one of the highest rates of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the world at 82.5%.   I went through FGM at the age of 7. My mother took.....