Clik here to view.
Famed photojournalist Mo Dhillon responds to AU on the ICC trials: “African...
Sir Mohinder Dhillon, renowned Kenyan photographer, photojournalist and filmmaker shared this new essay which he also submitted to the ICC judges: “GADDAFI AND MUSEVENI” African Unity leading Africa...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I am concerned that a move by the ICC to try Uhuru, Ruto and Sang “locally”...
The Kenyan government, after years of lack of success in its various diplomatic efforts to block the ICC prosecutions of key figures in the political killings involved with the 2007-08 elections,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two “must reads” from Kenya ahead of the opening of the PEV trials at the ICC
“Why Uhuru and Ruto must attend trials in The Netherlands” by George Kegoro in the Daily Nation. . . . . I have found possible answers to this question in the record of the first presidential...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Canadian High Commissioner misses the point in warning Kenyan politicians...
A diplomat has warned that the move last week by law makers to have Kenya pull out of the Rome Statute could jeopardise future search for international justice for Kenyans. Canadian High Commissioner...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Congressional Research Service report on the U.S. response to the Lord’s...
The Lord’s Resistance Army: The U.S. Response was submitted by CRS on May 15 and has been published by the Federation of American Scientists. The LRA is assessed to remain in much diminished capacity...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy Saba Saba Day–and how is Kenya?
Happy Saba Saba Day–and how is Kenya?. (from July 7, 2012–would appreciate your comments here or by e-mail about what has and has not changed)
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ahead of Washington Summit, Setback for Kenya’s Attorney General in pre-trial...
Counting-the original tally; December 27, 2007 “ICC acts tough on Uhuru’s assets, phone records” Daily Nation, July 30. The International Criminal Court has directed that the Kenyan government be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A few thoughts about ethnic polarization in Kenya as we wait on the ICC
I want to touch here briefly on what I have seen and heard in regard to ethnic “issues”–prejudice, discrimination, suspicion, solidarity, hate speech, and such–in Kenya. An important thing for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Choices and Consequences: Next for Kenyatta’s ICC Defense, October 8 Status...
The International Criminal Court has ruled that Kenya’s President Kenyatta must appear in the Hague for the status conference in his case on the confirmed charges relating to the Mungiki revenge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The War for History: Was Kenya’s 2007 election stolen or only “perceived to...
As the ICC proceedings play out, understanding the 2008 post election violence and evaluating the role of the parties, including the international actors, requires addressing the conduct of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ocampo, the Donors and “The Presumption of Arrogance”; a story of babes in...
Let me be clear that I have always supported the pursuit of the ICC cases for the 2007-08 post election killings in Kenya. Not because the ICC was necessarily a good option but because it was that or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The “top ten” most shared posts from the first five years of AfriCommons
Famed Photojournalist Mo Dhillon responds to AU on ICC trials: “African Unity leading Africa toward disaster” 134 days after election, Kenya’s IEBC fails to produce results in Parliament Was Kenya’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Keeping the bar low for Election Observation Missions? ICYMI, IGAD...
From AllAfrica.com: Ambassador Mahboub Maalim, Executive Secretary of IGAD, extended his warmest congratulations to President Omar Al-Bashir for his re-election to the presidency of the Sudan....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice statement to ICC Assembly of States...
Kenyan civil society groups who have been carrying the lonely burden of advocating for judicial accountability for the organized portion of the post election violence once again stood in the face of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Impunity consolidates power with “mistrial” for Ruto and Sang;...
As I noted in my post at the time of the dismissal of the Uhuru Kenyatta charges in December 20014, Ocampo, the Donors and “The Presumption of Arrogance,” a story of babes in the woods of Mt. Kenya?,...
View Article“THE DEBACLE OF 2007”– my piece in The Elephant on how Kenya’s politics was...
THE DEBACLE OF 2007: How Kenyan Politics Was Frozen and an Election Stolen with US Connivance | The Elephant
View ArticleClik here to view.
Must read on election tensions in Kenya: “A Silent Panic”
ELECTION 2017: A Silent Panic in Kenya by Dauti Kahura in The Elephant. A series of backstories of building tensions with the latest election approaching on the layers of accumulated grief and...
View ArticleBefore Kenya’s vote, read Daniel Branch’s The Fire Next Time
If you missed it, amid all the international media scene setters, and very last minute diplomatic appeals, take 9 minutes for “The Fire Next Time: Why memories of the 2007-08 post election violence...
View Article“Preliminary Findings” released by Kenyan civil society coalition on election
Update 23 Aug – Here is the latest from the Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu monitoring: KYSYElectionDataUpdate-WhyDisputed-22Aug2017 Following the unlawful raid on AfriCOG in Nairobi yesterday, today the...
View ArticleThe United States and other donors to the IEBC must not let (again) the power...
This is a straightforward lesson. We have acted in this movie in Kenya before. (To refresh, here is my piece “The Debacle of 2007: How Kenyan politics was frozen and an election was stolen with U.S....
View Article
