"My son told them I had bewitched his wife." Most of the 300,000 court cases Fida has pursued since 1985 on behalf of poor women involve land and property rights. One per cent of land in Kenya belongs to women, with five per cent jointly owned by spouses, 2006 government data shows. Traditionally, women in Kenya could not own land, which was passed down from father to son, leaving widows without a male heir vulnerable to eviction. "I am really bitter," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation ahead of International Widows' Day on Thursday.

Source: The Star June 23, 2016 06:11 UTC