In July 2025, US Senator James Risch introduced a bold amendment in Congress proposing the reconsideration of Kenya’s designation as a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA). This privileged status, awarded to a ...

Two human-rights activists were shot and killed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Thursday evening, leading a U.N. investigator to call for an independent investigation to prove that Kenyan police were ...

An armed gang attacked the headquarters of the Kenyan Human Rights Commission on Sunday as it hosted a press conference calling for an end to state violence, an AFP journalist saw. The attack came on ...

The human rights record of Kenya will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for a record fourth time. The Office of the High ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya is hosting the ...

The most widely watched television stations in Kenya are shuttered, and the government has defied a court order to return them to the air. Opposition politicians are under arrest, and journalists have ...

If I’m completely honest, I can’t recall all the twists and turns of “1984.” I probably read it in high school or maybe as an undergrad, somewhere alongside “Animal Farm.” They’re the kind of books ...

Tanzanians will on Wednesday vote in an election that pits incumbent leader Samia Suluhu Hassan against opposition candidates ...

In early 2024, Matthew Hart took a hard look at the upcoming elections around the world and worried that the outcomes did not look promising. “What we knew was that the winds were not in our favor.

Dr Kizza Besigye, has been honoured with the Akufo-Addo Africa Democracy Award by the Democracy Union of Africa (DUA) in ...

On Feb. 18, a panel discussion was held in the Konover Auditorium titled “U.S. Democracy & Human Rights at a Crossroads.” Kathryn Libal, director of the Gladstein Human Rights Institute, was the first ...