Plight of pregnant wife spurs 28-year old Kenyan man to hug tree for 90 hours and break month-old Guinness Book of Records feat
Through the protest, Munene advocated for right to essential services such as access health, tarmacked roads, reliable water supply for domestic use and irrigation, as well as electricity connectivity in the arid region.
Minorities Rights Day: ‘Constitution expressly protects minority rights despite their numbers’
President Ruto said the Constitution obliges the state to go beyond recognition and take deliberate action to protect and empower minority and marginalised communities.
Attorney General’s office in Kenya unveils plan to give free legal aid to children in conflict with law
State counsels in all the 47 counties have been directed to offer free legal aid to children in conflict with the law in a move that will uphold social justice, human rights and child protection.
Kenya’s Chief Justice to judicial officers: Without human infrastructure, our constitutional text is but ink on paper
Koome said ethical leadership, both within the judiciary and across governance systems, should not merely be about personal integrity, instead, about institutional courage: the willingness to make decisions that are constitutionally right even when they are unpopular and about transparency, humility, and an unwavering commitment to service.
Civil society, trade unions enter pact to fight back political coalitions accused of frustrating Kenyans
MAC, an umbrella body representing eight workers’ unions in Mombasa, will work with CCSNHR to jointly identify, review and update priority areas of collaboration based on emerging needs.
State launches National Legal Aid Centre to provide legal services to poor Kenyans
The centre, commissioned under the National Legal Aid Service (NLAS) programme, is part of a wider national roll-out designed to operationalise the Legal Aid Act, 2016, and to ensure that no Kenyan is denied justice due to poverty, limited information or geographical barriers.
Genocide: CNN details how Tanzania president masterminded extrajudicial killing of youth, dumping bodies in mass graves
Additionally, satellite images and videos show recently disturbed soil consistent with reports of mass graves in the Kondo cemetery, north of the East African country’s main city of Dar es Salaam. Two human rights groups and witnesses interviewed by CNN say the bodies of protesters killed in the past few weeks have been buried there.
Kenyan civil societies want independent probe by ICC of election atrocities in Tanzania
Scores went missing, prompting fears that they may have been killed by the political bodies dumped in mass graves as may be the case with hundreds – civil society allege thousands – with Tanzanians suspected to have been buried in unidentified graves.
After Rwandan Tutsi refugees installed Museveni in Uganda, there’s suspicion they want to reign in Great Lakes Region ‘genetically’
Perturbed people in East Africa think, believe and are convinced the expanded economic region would be politically dominated by Rwandan nomadic pastoralists in the same fashion they dominated their ancient Kitara Kingdom that spread over Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi and parts of Zambia before the emergence of the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom of the Babito.
Human rights groups read ethnic cleansing in Gaza after charter flight lands in South Africa with 150 Palestinians
The Israeli authority responsible for implementing civilian policies in the Palestinian territories said the Palestinians on the chartered plane to South Africa left the Gaza Strip after it received approval from a third country to receive them as part of an Israeli government policy allowing Gaza residents to leave. It didn’t name the third country.
