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FILE PHOTO: Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta speaks during a joint statement with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan at the State House, in Nairobi, Kenya, May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's High Court ruled on Thursday that a drive by President Uhuru Kenyatta to change the constitution was illegal, stopping what his critics have called a political move designed to check his deputy, whom he has fallen out with publicly. Parliament has already passed the proposed amendments, popularly known as the Building Bridges Initiative, which mark the biggest ...

By Duncan Miriri Parliament has already passed the proposed amendments, popularly known as the Building Bridges Initiative, which mark the biggest change to the East African nation’s government structure since a new constitution was adopted in 2010. But issuing a ruling on several challenges lodged by various parties, a five-judge bench of the court said Kenyatta had used a constitutional provision reserved for citizens to initiate the changes, making the process illegal. “The president cannot be both player and umpire in the same match,” said Jairus Ngaah, one of the judges. The govern...

Bloated “business as usual” won’t wash. Neither will lots of motion without movement to launch all manner of project toys and gimmicks.

Dark Ops Undercovered: Episode I – Eliminalia 12 April, 2021 Since November 2020, Qurium has received several mails from fake lawyers asking us to remove articles related to corruption in Angola involving Isabel dos Santos or Vincent Miclet. Two of the investigative websites that Qurium hosts, Maka Angola and The Elephant have been targeted by such content take-down campaigns. In all cases, the mails have came from legal firms claiming copyright (DMCA) or data protection legislation (GDPR), asking us to remove the content of a certain page or pages without revealing the concrete identity o...

Uganda election petition filed at EACJ Thursday April 01 2021 Summary Applicants want the regional court to declare that the conduct and outcome of the presidential election were unlawful due to the “massive violence and criminality” that marred it. Advertisement Six citizens from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania have file a petition at the East African Court of Justice challenging the conduct of the January 2021 presidential election in Uganda. The petition filed earlier this month, also asks the court to end the widespread violence and human rights abuses that erupted before the election, an...