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Crimes against humanity - Clashes between police and protesters in Kisumu (Kenya)
Why Kenya is trying now its first crimes against humanity case
18 November 2022 by Tom Maliti
On Monday, nine out of 12 police suspects - including senior commanders - appeared at a Nairobi court, accused of murdering a baby, and other crimes, during a violent crackdown on post-election protests five years ago. Kenya’s fir [...]
Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru was scheduled to be tried at the International Criminal Court (ICC) but died suddenly in September 2022. Gicheru dead, the mysteries of ICC's Kenya case fall in a black hole
15 November 2022 by Janet Anderson
On 26 September 2022, Paul Gicheru died in Kenya. The Kenyan lawyer was accused of witness tampering at the International Criminal Court (ICC), after the collapse of a big case on the 2007 electoral violence that involves the newl [...]
Crimes agains humanity in Kenya - Police violence during a protest in Kisumu (Kenya). Military policeman seems to shoot in front of him. What can Kenya's first case for crimes against humanity achieve?
14 November 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
In Kenya, national prosecutors have recently announced the opening of a first case for crimes against humanity, on the 2017 election violence. This case implicates police officers in rape, murder and torture, including the death o [...]
In the foreground: members of the riot police, armed and in military uniforms. In the background: people gathered in the street. Kisume (Kenya) in 2017. First prosecutions for crimes against humanity in Kenya
28 October 2022 by AFP
On October 28, the Director of Public Prosecutions in Kenya announced the indictment of several police officers for crimes against humanity. Some of them are also charged for command responsibility. This is a double first in that [...]
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15 August 2022 by AFP
Five things to know about Kenya Here are key facts about Kenya following the outcome of its presidential elections last week. Deputy President William Ruto has been declared winner, although the results have been rejected by some members of the electoral commiss [...]
indigenous child ogiek kenya
29 July 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Kenya ordered to redress wrongs done to Ogiek indigenous minority The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights on June 23 ordered the Kenyan government to return to the indigenous Ogiek people their ancestral lands. Kenya was also ordered to pay reparations to the community, which has been rep [...]
Paul Gicheru in videoconference at the closing hearing of his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
28 June 2022 by Janet Anderson
Last stabs in the darkness at the ICC on the Kenyan case As if the historic failure of the Kenyan trial was not bitter enough, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken it upon itself, in agreeing to prosecute Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru, to seek the trut [...]
10 November 2020 by Janet H. Anderson
Gicheru: back to the heart of darkness in the ICC's Kenyan case Special edition - podcast and article. In a surprise move Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru has appeared, on November 6 at the International Criminal Court, to face allegations of bribing witnesses. His case will remind the prosecution o [...]
29 May 2020 by Tom Maliti
How Kenya’s truth commission report became a political ghost In May 2013, Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission issued its four volume, 2,210 pages report. An implementation committee was recommended to be set up by the Parliament. Instead, political leaders, in government as [...]
28 May 2020 by Ronald C. Slye
7 years on, let’s dust off the Kenyan Truth Commission final report Ronald Slye was one of three international commissioners with Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. Seven years after the Commission has released its final report, he deplores that almost nothing has been made of i [...]
31 October 2019 by AFP
Colonial crimes: Kenyans turn to the UN At the beginning of the 20th century, the British colonial administration carried out a mass deportation to seize land for tea plantations in western Kenya. More than 100,000 people have signed a petition to the UN for murder, rap [...]
24 October 2017 by AFP
Uhuru Kenyatta: president from father to son Uhuru Kenyatta, who is set to win a second and final term in Thursday's election re-run, is the son of Kenya's founding president and a man who epitomises the country's elite. The 55-year-old US-educated multi-millionaire, whose f [...]
18 October 2017 by Aileen Kimutai, Nairobi
Is judicial wrangling fuelling Kenya's election turmoil? Kenya's annulled presidential elections have thrown the country into the worst political crisis since the 2008 post-election violence which saw over 1,000 people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Tension is high as the s [...]
6 September 2017 by Dominic Burbidge
Kenya’s Supreme Court has given an impossible deadline for the repeat election The Kenyan Supreme Court has found that the August 8 presidential election result is invalid. It blames the electoral commission, not the declared winner, Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenya’s leading newspaper praises the decision as a step to [...]
5 September 2017 by AiIeen Kimutai
The Kenyan supreme court decision may polarize the population It has been hailed as a benchmark the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling that nullified the August 8 presidential election results while ordering for a re-run within 60 days. The August 11 election declaration gave  the incumbent Uhuru K [...]
3 September 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: A victory for rule of law in Africa? The highlight of  the week was undoubtedly Friday’s decision by the Supreme Court of Kenya to invalidate the August 8 presidential election, a first in Africa. Kenya’s media hailed the decision which, as said by daily newspaper Th [...]
8 August 2017 by AFP
Kenya since 2007-2008 post-election violence Below are key dates since post-election violence in Kenya in 2007-2008 left more than 1,100 people dead, the worst violence in the east African country since independence in 1963: - 2007-2008: post election violence - On December [...]
8 August 2017 by AFP
Kenya: five things to know Kenya, which was holding elections on Tuesday a decade after deadly post-poll violence, is one of east Africa's leading economies with a crucial tourism sector based on safaris and tropical beaches. - Post-election violence - Keny [...]
6 August 2017 by AFP
Kenya on a knife edge ahead of high-stakes elections Kenyans head to the polls Tuesday to vote in a knife-edge contest between incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta and his rival Raila Odinga which has heightened claims of vote rigging and fears of violence. The final days of campaigning have be [...]
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