Human rights defenders equipped with modern forensic technics to unravel custodial deaths, torture in Kenya
As Kenya continues to record deaths linked to protests and detention, stakeholders agreed that improved forensic capacity and full legal implementation are essential to safeguarding human rights.
Eldoret court in Kenya’s Rift Valley sentences driver to life in jail defiling minor
The accused committed the crime of defiling the girl on May 8, 2025, at Katuiyo village in Ainabkoi subcounty, Uasin Gishu County.
Forensic experts say Kenyan prisons are murder dens and bloodthirsty police let to go scot-free
The UN Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture Member and Head of Forensic Medicine at the University of Belgrade, Dr Djordje Alempijevic, echoed the need for elevated forensic standards drawn g from global experience.
Resurgence of Boko Haram to northeast Nigeria means the region’s IDP return policy is in disarray
Much of Borno’s countryside has been depopulated by the 15-year insurgency. The army switched to a “super camp” strategy in 2019 after losing a series of remote outposts, concentrating its forces in fortified bases in key towns.
Killed and displaced with guns, residents of eastern Congo face another crisis: Land grabs and assassinations by M23 rebels in Rutshuru
It is widely believed that Rwanda’s current support for the M23 is driven by geopolitical and economic interests, although the Congolese army has given it a pretext by allying with various militias, including the FDLR, to strengthen its ranks against the rebels.
Fears Tanzania on cusp of Gen Z uprising after Kikwete turned President Suluhu into a ‘lapdog’ to muzzle Christians, retain Muslim hegemony
It is remembered that in 2005 as Mkapa served his last term, he was forced to deport Kikwete from New York after he went missing from the president’s delegation, only to be fished out of a Harlem brothel as Mkapa’s delegation waited for him to sign funding agreements with the World Bank and International Monetary (IMF). As is custom, such financial commitment are signed by finance and foreign affairs ministers.
State agency in Kenya warns that investor and business interests are tied to human rights
The commission officer noted that, though Kenya was one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, economic and social progress, should be ethical, inclusive, and equitable to guarantee a significant impact on society as a whole.
Kenya’s President Ruto announces seven days of national mourning of fallen opposition leader Raila Odinga
Odinga first won his parliamentary seat in 1992, which included Kibera. He held the constituency until 2013, his bright orange Hummer mobbed whenever it bounced into the muddy lanes. He lost his first presidential bid in 1997 against Moi. Four years later, Odinga formed a coalition government with him, a move some saw as opportunistic but he said was pragmatic.
Rights defenders welcome first conviction by world court on past atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur
Conflict now rages in Sudan between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces – born out of the Janjaweed militias – and Sudan’s military. Tensions erupted in 2023 between the two previous allies that were meant to oversee a democratic transition after a 2019 uprising.
Newly sworn-in National Dialogue Panel promises victims of state brutality justice, reparations
Chief Registrar Winfridah Mokaya described the day as “historic for the country” and congratulated stakeholders for their dedication.
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