The State Law Office cannot account for at least Sh394.8 million largely used as legal fees for six international law firms that represented Kenya at the International Court of Justice in its maritime boundary dispute with Somalia. The payment was highly inflated and taxpayers may not have got value for the expenditure, says Auditor-General Edward [...]

Following the July 2015 election in which Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza won a disputed third term, violence among state forces, suspected opposition members, and civilians has increased significantly, particularly after October 2015. In December 2015, security forces killed more than ninety people, mostly suspected anti-government supporters, in retaliation for an attack on a military base […]

As armed groups are the main perpetrators of the ongoing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, many actors working in the country have started critically looking into the factors that have contributed to these groups’ ability to continue operating regardless of concerted local, regional, and international efforts to defeat them. A study done […]

Well over 50,000 people have been killed and more than 1.6 million have been internally displaced since civil war broke out in South Sudan in December 2013. Under the threat of international sanctions and following several rounds of negotiations supported by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), President Salva Kiir signed a peace agreement with rebel […]

Governments, Donors Should Energize Support at Dakar Summit (Dakar) – The slow growth of free secondary education for all is jeopardizing the futures of millions of children globally, Human Rights Watch said today, in advance of the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) 2018 Replenishment Conference in Dakar, Senegal. Globally, more than 264 million children are […]