Christine Sitiyan, a woman from the Samburu tribe who escaped from gender-based violence, stands inside the Umoja village where men are restricted on Feb. 7, 2023. (REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi) ...

[1/6]Christine Sitiyan, a woman from the Samburu tribe who escaped from gender based violence, stands at the entrance of a traditional mud dwelling known as Manyatta at the Umoja village where men ...

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Umoja Village in Samburu County, northern Kenya is a single-sex community where only women reside, and no men are allowed. In 2017, Ghanaian photographer Paul Ninson visited for his photo series ...

Ghanaian photographer Paul Ninson first found out about the Umoja women from a blog post and decided to go to Kenya to photograph this village in 2017, partly because, he said, he felt these ...

She’s referring to hundreds of women from the mostly pastoralist Maasai and Samburu communities who accused the British Army of rapes in the 1970s and 80s.

A group of Samburu women at a capacity building meeting on sandalwood conservation, Photo by Carroll Omuom, used with permission. By Linda Ngari with support from the Resillience Fund and Unganisha ...

She’s referring to hundreds of women from the mostly pastoralist Maasai and Samburu communities who accused the British Army of rapes in the 1970s and 80s.

The thorny trees and dung-caked homes of Umoja village make it resemble any other in Kenya's northeastern Samburu region, except in one key detail - the absence of men. Since it was established ...