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A high court in Nairobi on Saturday issued a directive ordering cryptocurrency project Worldcoin and its partners to halt the processing of any new biometric data in Kenya until a pending case against the company is formally heard and adjudicated. This injunction comes in response to a grievance lodged by the Kenya Data Protection Commissioner [...]

A Court of Appeal in Kenya lifted the suspension on the controversial Finance Act 2023 on Friday. The High Court had previously suspended the act, arguing that without conservatory orders, the petition’s essence would be lost. The applicants in the appeal argued that the Finance Act’s suspension would disrupt crucial government operations and cause substantial [...]

The last four or so weeks have been dramatic in Kenyan corridors of power because of the controversial Finance Act, 2023. It is not only one of the first major laws that was pushed through by the new Kenya Kwanza government which came to power in September 2022, but it is also a law that [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Senior Correspondent in Kenya. She files this dispatch from Nairobi. What exactly is a country? Is a country its people, or is a country its government? Moreover, do the laws of a country exist to serve its citizens or do they exist to serve the whims of its government? And [...]

Rights groups and civil society organisations in Kenya called Sunday for the urgent reconstitution of the country’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission and the full repeal of the controversial Finance Act 2023 in a bid to calm the hot political climate in the country. Their call came after widespread demonstrations last week against the incumbent [...]

Hundreds of people protested on Saturday in Botswana’s capital Gaborone against a bill seeking to make same-sex relations legal. Botswana’s parliament was forced to introduce the bill legalizing same-sex relations pursuant to a 2019 ruling of the High Court of Botswana, which held that laws criminalizing same-sex relations are unconstitutional. The case was brought by [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Senior Correspondent in Kenya. She files this dispatch from Nairobi.   On Thursday, July 20th, Kenya entered its second day of demonstrations, in a series of nationwide opposition protests planned from Wednesday to Friday this week. Since Wednesday, most businesses have been closed, either in support of the protests or due [...]

Following anti-government protests in Kenya on Wednesday, police officers shot and killed six people. According to the Ministry of Interior, 304 others were arrested. The ministry also stated that the authorities had documented numerous incidents of looting and damage. Several human rights organizations have criticized this response by police to the protests, calling it police [...]

With the recent resurgence of discussions surrounding digital identification in Kenya, it is time to take a closer look at the potential benefits and associated risks. In October 2021, the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) introduced in January 2019 and popular as ‘Huduma Namba’, was declared illegal by the High Court for conflicting with [...]

A Kenyan appeals court declared Monday that mandatory life sentences are unconstitutional. The Court of Appeal at Malindi Kenya found that mandatory life sentences are “an unjustifiable discrimination, unfair and repugnant to the principle of equality before the law under Article 27 of the Constitution.” The case reached the Court of Appeal via a petition, [...]