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Last month Luis Moreno Ocampo gave his first media interview on the Kenyan trials since leaving office at the International Criminal Court, where he held the position of chief prosecutor from 2003 to...
View ArticleKenya's empty bread basket
Erratic and insufficient rainfall has a large number of Kenyans facing drought and food shortages.By Miriam Gathigah, NairobiJane Njeri from the semi-arid lower Mukurweini district in Kenya’s Central...
View ArticleKenya's pastoralists show their green thumbs
For more than a decade Dima Wario from Rupa, a village in northern Kenya, escaped death and watched helplessly as many in his community died in a spate of natural disasters and fatal clashes over...
View ArticlePOOR AFRICAN COUNTRY? JUST REBASE!
Africa is booming. Even more so now that some governments are rebasing – basically a fancy way of saying improving your country's economic figures. Nigeria and Ghana have done it and Kenya is next. Is...
View ArticleKenya's nationwide clampdown on Islamic extremism "counterproductive"
The latest terrorist attack in Kenya, on 23 April, left four people dead. The bombing is seen as retaliation against the ongoing countrywide crackdown on illegal immigrants and refugees suspected of...
View ArticleKENYAN SOMALIS IN RACIAL PROFILING STORM
Kenya's community of ethnic Somalis are under suspicion. At least that's how they feel since the Kenyan government announced operation "Usalama" - a crackdown against Somali terrorist group Al Shabab...
View ArticleSomalia: "Kenyan refugee expulsion will lead to chaos and anarchy"
The Somali government says that the hasty repatriation and mass deportation of Somalians by Kenya could compromise recent, critical security improvements made by regional governments against the...
View ArticleUgandan university students forced to be porn actors against their will
Human traffickers recruit unsuspecting Ugandan university students with promises of good jobs abroad. For Sunday Bekunda (25), a second year student at Makerere University Kampala, the promise turned...
View ArticleKenya: gang rape victim wished for her child's death
During the 2007/8 post-election violence in Kenya, Elizabeth fell victim to gang rape. As a result, she became mother of Neema, now six years old. Elizabeth is trying to come to terms with motherhood,...
View ArticleIrresponsible HIV reporting in Kenya
Newspaper coverage of the latest Kenyan HIV statistics has tended to sketch a doomsday scenario – for which there is no evidence. Is this misrepresentation of the facts based on sensationalism or...
View ArticleWho owns Kenya?
The 2010 constitution prevents foreigners from owning land in Kenya, but as Kenyans have come to find out, implementing these provisions is complicated by the ambiguous nature of the law and deliberate...
View ArticleKenyatta's massive ICC entourage
Today is a crucial day for the trial against Uhuru Kenyatta, the president of Kenya, at the International Criminal Court.He is the first head of state in office to appear in person before the ICC -...
View ArticleKenyatta’s Hague speech: “God bless Kenya, God bless the ICC”
Once again, the Kenyan national anthem was sung at the International Criminal Court. After the ICC Status Conference ended, supporters of President Uhuru Kenyatta rushed outside into the rain to hail...
View ArticleKenyans behaving badly at the ICC
Last week on Wednesday, the unfathomable happened: President Uhuru Kenyatta personally attended his ICC status conference. Under similar circumstances, most nations would hang their heads in shame, but...
View ArticleFatou Bensouda and the Uncle Tom syndrome
The ICC has garnered a bad rap in Africa, and it should do something about that, says our blogger Sunny Ntayomba. On October 8, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta appeared before the International...
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