This week saw the closest electoral race in Kenyan history. Avoiding broken nails, rising blood pressure and future post-electoral stress syndrome (PESS) will need self-care and respect for each other’s political choices over this weekend. What other insights can we make from our relatively open and competitive democracy? Elections day went relatively well as expected.…
Like Commonwealth gold winner Ferdinand Omanyala, the sprint of 16,100 candidates comes to an end today. How have the political campaigns fared and what do we need in our election survival kit right now? For many, the childish question “Are we there yet? Enough already” resonates. It does feel like we have been in the…
With elections related malicious content spiking on social media and a new Council for Responsible Social Media launched this week, perhaps its time to revisit what social media platforms, digital citizens and the algorithms are doing online. Code for Africa have recorded a 45 per cent increase in malicious online hate-speech across TikTok, FaceBook, Twitter,…
The recent brutal killings of seven women in Nakuru County horrified the nation. Within weeks, police had arrested over a 100 youth and are now being accused of summarily executing four suspects. Yesterday, three police officers were convicted for killing the Mavoko 3. As the Jubilee regime prepares its handover, will extra-judicial killings be its…
By Demas Kiprono, Kenya’s journey to becoming a properly democratic society has been a mixed bag of fortunes from when Africans began advocating for the right to vote during colonial times to the struggle for independence, post-independence and the new Constitution. Many observers consider Kenya’s democracy more mature than others in Africa, perhaps because of…
Download the executive summary of the report Download the full report With 29 days to the General Elections, ten prominent international and national human rights organisations have scored the performance of the Jubilee administration at 46%. Missed Opportunities: A Human Rights Scorecard on the Jubilee Administration and Lessons for the next Government assesses the Jubilee…
On January 24, 2019, the Supreme Court in a 4-1 majority decision, quashed a Court of Appeal decision that had found it discriminatory for church-sponsored schools to bar Muslim students from wearing the hijab and white trousers. This means, as it stands right now, schools have the prerogative to determine what students can or cannot…