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Kenyan Women on sex boycott.

Nairobi : Kenya | 6 months ago  
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Political tool?Kenyan women denied their spouses sex since 1st May 2009 in demand for political reforms and constitutional review.The rift between Raila Odinga and Mwai Kibaki has brought about suffering and unrest, women being most affected.

The wives of the two leaders were requested to support their cause.Raila Odinga's wife fully supports the campaign.

More interesting is that G10 the organisation behind this campaign paid off the prostitutes to stay off the streets.

The question is,will the politicians agree to a truce?

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  • News Source: CNN | 6 months ago
    A Kenyan man has sued activists who called on women to boycott sex to protest the growing divide in the nation's coalition government. James Kimondo said the seven-day sex ban, which ended this week, resulted in stress, mental anguish, backaches and...
  • News Source: The Courier-Mail | 6 months ago
    James Kimondo is suing the leaders of G10, a coalition of women's groups that called for a national boycott to push the men into resolving the east African country's political woes. "Since the women called for the sex boycott, my wife has denied me...
  • News Source: Voice of America | 6 months ago
    A week-long effort by Kenyan women to withhold sex in the hope of spurring political leaders to resolve their disputes and undertake reforms comes to an end Wednesday. Leaders of the women's groups that organized the campaign called it a success, but...
  • News Source: BBC | 6 months ago
    They hope that by denying sex to their partners for seven days they will stop the infighting which has plagued the national unity government in Kenya. What started as a movement by female activist groups has spread far and wide, recently being...
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  • Blog Source: blog.foreignpolicy.com
    Ida Odinga, wife of Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga, has joined a Lysistrata-like nationwide sex boycott aimed at forcing the countries leaders to overcome a political impasse. Kenyan women's groups started the boycott in an effort ...
  • Blog Source: somalilandpress.com
    The women called on Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka to refuse to be used as a point of conflict between the two principals. “The National Accord is a marriage between two partners and the introduction of a third party is mischievous, ...
  • Blog Source: wrongingrights.blogspot.com
    Ida Odinga (wife of Prime Minister Raila Odinga) announced on Thursday that she would join the protest. No word yet on whether President Mwai Kibaki will be able to induce his wife Lucy to cross the picket lines. ...
  • Blog Source: www.lankajournal.com
    It was not clear whether the wife of Mwai Kibaki, the president, would join the strike. The east African country has been in political turmoil since a presidential election in December 2007 which Odinga accused Kibaki of stealing. ...
  • Blog Source: majimbokenya.com
    While announcing the sex boycott on Wednesday, the women said their latest move would help President Mwai Kibaki and his coalition partner Prime Minister Raila Odinga to ‘wake up and act'. “Extraordinary situations call for ...
  • Blog Source: inwent-iij-lab.org
    But suddenly, after a three month recess, the Orange Democratic Party—- one of the two major coalition parties— decided that its leader, Raila Odinga, ought to be the leader of government business. That President Mwai Kibaki's Party of ...
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