A Kenyan court announced the suspension until October 24 of the intervention of the Kenyan police in Haiti. Last week, the United Nations Security Council voted for a one-year mandate for a multinational intervention force in Haiti, led by Kenya. Nairobi plans to send 1,000 police officers there by the …
Read More »Kenyan court to rule on female genital mutilation ban
The High Court in Kenya is due to rule today (Wednesday) on whether to decriminalise female genital mutilation for adult women, BBC News reports. The case is in response to a 2017 petition by a doctor who argued that banning the practice was unconstitutional as women had the right to …
Read More »A pastor sentenced to 140 years in prison for impregnanting his two daughters
The cases take place in the constituency of Ndia, located in the county of Kirinyaga in Kenya. According to sources, Reverend Pastor John Gichira, 51 years old would have impregnated his two daughters aged respectively 14 and 16. The same sources indicate that this religious leader abused his young daughters. …
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