Eric Ngone is a member of the JURIST News staff and an occasional contributor based in Kenya. He is a fourth-year law student at Egerton School of Law. Kenya’s Mombasa Law Court has found controversial religious leader Paul Mackenzie guilty in a case involving the deaths of more than 190 children linked to the Shakahola [...]

Alexandra Bennett is JURIST’s Global Chief of Staff and an occasional contributor. She is a JD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she serves as a Senior Development Editor on Law Review, and is concurrently pursuing an LLM in International Business Law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. At 9 a.m. [...]

On Tuesday, October 6, Kenya’s Ministry of Health confirmed the country’s first case of the Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease. This comes after a Kenyan citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the past seven years, jetted back to Kenya and died days later while receiving medical treatment in Nairobi. [...]

Sam Bankole is a JURIST correspondent based in the UK and a graduate in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford. Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, made a powerful and emotionally charged speech, promising “Hope Again” for the UK during the recent Labour Party conference. His speech marked a shift in British [...]

Tracy Harris is a JURIST contributor and a third-year student at the Norman A. Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, and served as a judicial clerk with the Supreme Court of Namibia this summer as part of the inaugural Zaytoun clerkship cohort. This summer, the inaugural cohort of the Joseph E. Zaytoun International Judicial Clerkship [...]

Voimo Tamang is a third-year law student at National Law College and a JURIST correspondent based in Kathmandu, Nepal. On September 24, Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah addressed the 81st United Nations General Assembly to bring the country’s devastating Bhotekoshi–Trishuli floods to the center of the international climate debate. Describing the disaster as a warning [...]

In the early morning hours of September 24, 2026, the Trump administration restored White House access to news networks CNN, MS NOW, and Politico after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s ban on the three news organizations. Despite the restoration of their credentials, subsequent disputes over pool assignments, presidential [...]

Syeda Aamna Hasan is a JURIST correspondent and law graduate working as a legal researcher, covering legal developments in Pakistan. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law. On Wednesday, September 16, Pakistan’s Supreme Court deferred proceedings regarding the medical treatment and the proposed transfer of imprisoned former Prime Minister and founder of Pakistan’s [...]

Mihai Coca-Constantinescu, who holds an International and European Law LLB from the University of Groningen and an International Trade and Investment Law LLM from the University of Amsterdam, is a PhD candidate in Transboundary Legal Studies at the University of Groningen, based in the Netherlands, where he covers legal developments in Romania as a JURIST [...]

A motion for retrial was filed by a Taiwan Innocence Project pro bono legal team on September 7 for Lu Cheng—a man executed in 2000 amid concerns over a miscarriage of justice. The motion was supported by five new pieces of evidence. In the press conference and documentary screening earlier this month, the Taiwan Innocence [...]