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The International Crisis Group, a non-profit NGO, released its latest report on Haiti’s ongoing gang crisis on Friday, which stressed the growing challenges of an international intervention to address the country’s deteriorating security situation. Haiti has been grappling with escalating violence and political turmoil, exacerbating its already dire humanitarian emergency. The UN Security Council responded [...]

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) expressed discontent on Wednesday over Kenyan President William Ruto’s comments concerning the judiciary’s functioning. Chairperson of the JSC Chief Justice Martha Koome issued a statement highlighting concerns about criticism faced by judges for perceived opposition to state programs. According to the statement: The Commission wishes to draw the attention of [...]

Transparency International, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), Katiba Institute and Africa Center for Open Governance (Africog) lodged a petition on Tuesday against prosecutors Geoffrey Obiri and Oliver Mureithi. The organizations accused the two prosecutors of mishandling the Arror and Kimwarer dams case, seeking accountability for their reckless dereliction of duty. In early December, an [...]

The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, was declared the winner of the recent elections Sunday, despite the opposition condemning the results and claiming electoral fraud. The elections, which happened in late December, were marred by widespread disruption. Two candidates for the parliament were killed in separate incidents and the EU [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) arrested and charged Karrem Nasr, an American citizen residing in Egypt since July 2023, for attempting to provide support to al-Shabaab. Nasr, a resident of New Jersey, traveled to Kenya with the intent to join al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, following Hamas’ attack in southern Israel on October [...]

Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) arrested four individuals on Thursday, including the former Cabinet Secretary and Permanent Secretary for Tourism, Najib Balala and Leah Gwiyo, for alleged procurement fraud in the construction of a hospitality college in the southern region of Coast. The four are facing corruption and economic crime charges, including ten counts [...]

A Florida federal judge sentenced former Haitian Senator Joseph Joel John on Tuesday to life in prison. Joseph was previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Federal Judge Jose Martinez handed down the judgement at a hearing in Miami, Florida. He sentenced John to the maximum sentence of life [...]

A judge in Nairobi, Kenya ruled on Thursday that Meta Platforms, Inc., the parent company of social media sites like Facebook, is not in contempt of court for failure to pay dozens of content moderators that a contractor had laid off, according to Kenyan news source People Daily. Justice Mathews Nduma Nderi of the Employment [...]

International human rights organizations called upon the Kenyan government on Tuesday to halt illegal and forceful evictions in the Mau Forest, located in the Rift Valley of Kenya. Amnesty International, the Minority Rights Group International and Survival International stated that more than 700 people have been displaced from the Mau Forest and urged that the [...]

Kenya’s High Court declared on Tuesday that a 1.5 percent levy, introduced in an earlier bill to fund affordable housing, violated constitutional principles. The levy was a provision of the Finance Act 2023, which faced legal challenges earlier this summer amidst mass demonstrations against the cost of living crisis in Kenya. The housing levy was [...]