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Kenya president's controversial reelection triggers deadly protest
According to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights , a protest in opposition of the reelection of President Uhuru Kenyatta for a second five-year term has resulted in at least 24 people dead on Saturday. Kenya police used live ammunition and (More) |
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Kenya president approves voting law despite fears of election rigging
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta signed a controversial law Monday that may impact the August elections. The law enables a paper recount of votes in the event that the electronic systems fail. Though a victory for the majority Jubilee party, who clai (More) |
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Kenyan anti-terror law challenged in court
Kenya's opposition coalition, including former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, filed suit on Tuesday challenging the nation's new anti-terrorism law . The law, signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta last Thursday, allows security services to detain suspec (More) |
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Kenya Withdrawal from ICC a Symptom of Political Brainwash
JURIST Guest Columnist Roland Adjovi, Academic Director of the Arcadia Center for East African Studies says that while the Kenyan vote to withdraw from the ICC masks the greater danger of polarization in Africa opposing much needed applications of in (More) |
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Non-Signatory Countries
Of the 139 states that signed the Rome Statute, 32 have not yet ratified the treaty. According to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties , a state that has signed but not ratified a treaty is obliged to refrain from "acts which would defeat the (More) |
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Kenya UN ambassador seeks dismissal of ICC charges against president
Kenya's ambassador to the UN, Macharia Kamau, has sent a letter to the UN Security Council asking that the International Criminal Court (ICC) charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and Vice President Wil (More) |
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ICC judge withdraws from case against Kenya president
A judge overseeing the International Criminal Court (ICC) case of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] requested on Saturday to be excused from hearing the case while leveling sharp criticism at prosecutors handling th (More) |
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Kenya top court releases ruling upholding presidential election results
Kenya's Supreme Court on Tuesday released a 113-page judgment upholding the results of the March presidential election. The court unanimously upheld the results last month but just released its reasoning, finding that the process was flawed but n (More) |
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ICC indictee Kenyatta sworn in as fourth president of Kenya
Uhuru Kenyatta [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was sworn in as the fourth president of Kenya Tuesday. Kenyatta, who is the son of Kenya's first president Jomo Kenyatta , was elected in a closely contested race with 50.07 percent of the vote. Ke (More) |
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Kenya Supreme Court upholds presidential election results
Kenya's Supreme Court ruled on Saturday that the results of the country's presidential election earlier this month are valid, confirming that Uhuru Kenyatta , the son of Kenya's first president Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, will be the next president. The una (More) |
Women lawyers allowed to practice before US Supreme Court
On February 15, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed legislation allowing women to be admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Belva Lockwood became the first woman admitted to practice under the new law on March 3, 1879.
Learn more about Belva Lockwood.
