Kenyan women's groups demand action on femicide after athlete's death

Rebecca Cheptegei lost her fight for life in the early hours of Thursday, four days after her boyfriend poured petrol over her and set her ablaze at her home in western Kenya. The 33-year-old Ugandan long-distance runner, who had recently competed at the Paris Olympics and was a mother of two young daughters, was the third female athlete to be killed in Kenya since 2021. "This is Femicide," Njeri Migwi, the founder of Usikimye, an organisation that fights gender-based violence, posted on X after Cheptegei's death.