Kenya Plans to Expel Somali Refugees From Dadaab Camp, Citing Terror Threat Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times   11 May 2016   The Kenyan government has announced that it plans to expel hundreds of thousands of refugees, a move that aid agencies say would violate international law and endanger many people. For years, Kenya has threatened to shut down the Dadaab refugee camp, where hundreds of thousands of Somalis have been marooned for

ICC: Kenya Deputy President’s Case Ends: Witness Interference Undermined Trial Human Rights Watch 05 April 2016    Image: A man walks through ruins of an area of Chepilat in the Rift Valley Province, February 2008. The burning of homes by Kalenjin men, forced residents of both the Kisii and the Kikuyu ethnic groups to flee. © 2008 Marcus Bleasdale/VII   (Brussels) – Efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to bring to

Image: A Gathering of Bloggers – The Why About This, One United World. retrieved from www.thewhyaboutthis.com Burma/Myanmar: The first bill proposed by the incoming government of Myanmar’s new Parliament, led by the National League for Democracy, created a new position in the government for Aung San Suu Kyi, that of state counsellor. This position, one that has been compared to that of a Prime Minister, would skirt the constitutional ban

We can stop killings before they happen The Nation, Nairobi, Kenya 9 March 2016 By Gregory H Stanton   In Nigeria, Boko Haram has murdered thousands.  In Libya, ISIS is establishing strongholds just across the Mediterranean from Europe. The government of Sudan has killed over three million of its own people and continues genocides in Darfur, Blue Nile, and South Kordofan. South Sudan is gripped by a civil war that could see thousands more

Somali Militants Carry Out Deadly Attack in Northeast Kenya Isma'il Kushkush, New York Times 7 July 2015 NAIROBI, Kenya — Shabab militants killed 14 people and wounded 11 in the northeastern Kenyan town of Mandera on Tuesday, a government official said, the latest attack in the region by the Somali Islamist group. The grenade attack took place around 2 a.m. at a compound near a livestock market, according to officials, and most of the victims were

Meet the feminists changing the world for girls from Kenya to Egypt Ellie Mae O'Hagan, The Guardian 13 April 2015   Sri Lanka Sarah Soysa: ‘Young feminists are considered to be an evil, scary threat’ Feminism is needed for teenage girls in Sri Lanka. Women, young people and transgender people are harassed and disempowered. Opportunities are taken away from them. Sri Lanka has a particularly high teenage pregnancy rate. A Unicef study found

A Catch-22 in Kenya: Western Terrorism Alerts May Fuel Terrorism 23 February 2015 The New York Times   MOMBASA, Kenya — Every morning at the Tides Inn, a waiter trudges down from the restaurant to the beach with a huge blackboard advertising the daily specials — deep-fried fish and masala prawns, pepper steak and pizza, all listed in chalk and illustrated with cute drawings. But nobody ever comes by, not even for a gander. Up and down the

Militants Divide Kenya Miners by Religion, Then Begin Killing By Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times 2 December 2014   The Kenyan miners were marched off in the predawn dark on Tuesday, some barefoot, others shirtless. The Somali militants methodically separated the Christian workers from the Muslims and took the Christians to the side of a hill, near a gravel pit. Then they ordered the disbelievers to lie face down. According to the Kenyan authorities,

Kenyans protest over Nairobi miniskirt attack BBC 17 November 2014 At least 200 people have protested in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after a group of men tore off a woman's clothes for wearing a miniskirt. The protesters chanted "Shame on you" and handed out flowers at a bus rank where the attack took place, the BBC's Anne Soy reports from the scene. At a rival demonstration, about 20 men chanted "Dress up. We don't want this." Kenya is a conservative

Kenya arrests leader of separatist coastal movement By Joseph Akwiri 15 October 2014 Kenyan police on Wednesday arrested the leader of a separatist movement seeking independence for the country's Indian Ocean coast regions, accusing Omar Mwamnuadzi of holding an illegal meeting and planning a breach of the peace. Mwamnuadzi, chairman of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), has regularly accused the government of socially and economically marginalising