Aynsley Genga is JURIST’s senior Kenya correspondent. She files this report from Nairobi. Susan Njoki’s tragic death sent shockwaves through Kenya’s mental health community—not only because it marked the loss of a passionate advocate, but because her final days revealed the system’s failure to help those it claimed to protect. Susan Njoki—founder of Toto Touch [...]

JURIST’s Christine Savino is currently working in Ukraine with war victims, including those displaced by bombings, while supporting European Court of Human Rights case research and submissions on Russian war crimes. The thunders of exploding bombs recently interrupted my night, a morose testament to Russia’s nocturnal attacks on Ukraine, which have become a defining feature [...]

Two weeks have passed since African Uncensored released its exposé on Peter Ayiro, a male teacher at Alliance Girls High School—one of the top high schools, and the oldest girls’ high school, in the nation—accusing him of grooming and sexual abuse. The article, written by alumna Christine Mungai, took the whole nation by storm. It [...]

On July 9, Russia launched 741 aerial weapons against Ukraine using 728 Shahed-type drones and decoys, seven Iskander cruise missiles, and six aeroballistic Kinzhal missiles. Each of these 741 weapons carries enough destructive power to level an average building. According to an Axios report, Russian President Vladimir Putin informed US President Donald Trump during a [...]

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) issued a statement Tuesday that strongly condemned the violence and vote-buying that marred the parliamentary re-run elections held in Ghana’s Ablekuma North constituency. The group criticized what they described as “acts of political thuggery, intimidation, and inducement of voters,” calling these developments a threat to Ghana’s democratic integrity. [...]

Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and lawyer based in Pakistan.   Pakistan’s information and freedom of speech landscape has steadily narrowed over the past several years as the state began systematically removing independent voices from television channels and newspaper columns. In response, many journalists turned to digital platforms—primarily YouTube—to continue reporting on [...]

On Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General of Ghana Justice Srem-Sai shared a post on social media saying that Chief Justice Getrude Torkornoo had filed a lawsuit against the Republic of Ghana at the ECOWAS Community Court in Abuja, Nigeria on July 4. The court of justice of the Economic Community of West African States has jurisdiction [...]

Noor Ul Huda is a JURIST staff correspondent in Pakistan and a recent graduate of Punjab University Law College. She files this dispatch from Lahore.  Pakistan has long been a nation where the winds of change blow frequently, especially when it comes to its judiciary. Ever since the 26th Constitutional Amendment, there hasn’t been a [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Monday, the Supreme Court of India (SCI) agreed to hear a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission’s (ECI) decision to verify and revise the State of Bihar’s electoral rolls as it awaits assembly elections later this year. This [...]

Yesterday the country woke up to yet another day of commemoration, marking 35 years since the famous Saba Saba Movement, first held on July 7, 1990. The movement began as a protest, demanding multiparty democracy against the then-government’s autocratic regime. Despite the protest being banned, key opposition leaders still convened in Nairobi. This resulted in [...]