As Kenya draws closer and closer to its August 9 elections date, I keep thinking that the presidential contenders have come “full circle”. Since the 1980s we have had the same political faces. We have the Azimio la Umoja party leaders, Raila Odinga and Martha Karua, who fought for multipartism in the 1980s, and we [...]

Last week, Kenya’s parliament passed the controversial Information, Communication Technology (ICT) Practitioners Bill 2020. This is a bill that has found its way back to parliament time and time again despite being rejected in 2016, 2018 and 2020. It seeks to regulate people who make use of technology in order to collect, process, use or [...]

Caleb Keraka is a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kenya and a fourth-year law student at the University of Nairobi School of Law.  On April 8th in Nairobi the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) formally joined the East African Community (EAC) bloc by signing the EAC Accession Treaty. This came after meeting the requisite conditions [...]