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The trial of four American socialist activists began this week in Florida in a case that echoes the ideological tensions of the Cold War era. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused these individuals of instigating social unrest in the US at the behest of the Kremlin. This case pits allegations of Russian misinformation against [...]

David Odero is a law student at Kisii University and a special correspondent for JURIST. He filed this dispatch from Nairobi.   Sleep is for the weak and the wicked, as the saying goes, and this sentiment never made more sense than on the morning of Tuesday, 25 June. Individuals alleged to be members of the [...]

No sooner had the dust of 2023 settled than the leader of the executive arm of Kenya’s government launched missiles of subliminal jibes aimed at what he termed “a tyrannical and corrupt judiciary.” President William Ruto—a product of the Kenyan Supreme Court’s ruling on the 2022 Presidential Petition—averred that some judges were bent on sabotaging [...]

Kenya’s Environment and Land Court issued interim orders Wednesday against a policy directive reinstated by President William Ruto in July lifting a moratorium on logging pending the hearing and determination of a case filed by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). In the ruling, Justice Oscar Angote, the presiding judge, also issued conservatory orders suspending [...]

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 [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Senior Correspondent in Kenya. She files this dispatch from Nairobi.   Major public demonstrations against the Kenyan government and its handling of tax increases and the cost of living crisis are set to take place in Kenya from Wednesday to Friday this week. The demonstrations have been on the mind of [...]

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 [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Senior Correspondent in Kenya. She files this dispatch from Nairobi. On Monday, 3rd July, the High Court of Kenya declared President William Ruto’s appointment of 50 Chief Administrative Secretaries (CAS) as unconstitutional. In a majority decision (2/3), the judges declared that due to lack of proper public participation as stipulated [...]

A federal grand jury in Florida Tuesday released a superseding indictment against four US citizens and three Russian nationals for conspiring with the Russian government to act as unregistered foreign agents. The conspiracy was called a “multi-year foreign malign influence campaign,” according to a press release from the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The first [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya. Anti-government demonstrations were held across Kenya both Monday and Thursday this week after a call by Azimio opposition party leader Raila Odinga. These have been just about all that everyone has been talking about. The whole week seemed like a movie. We have those who are [...]