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Kenya: Miguna Miguna vs Cabinet Secretary and others, High Court

Published: 29/Mar/2018
Source: Kenya High Court at Nairobi

Constitutional Petition No.51 of 2018 Orders: 1. A declaration that the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Respondents have violated Article 10 of the Constitution by failing to adhere to the rule of law in the sense that they have brazenly […]

Allow Miguna Miguna back into Kenya to attend judicial proceedings

Published: 29/Mar/2018
Source: Amnesty International

Reacting to the Kenyan authorities’ refusal to let pro-opposition lawyer Miguna Miguna into the country to participate in a judicial proceeding concerning him, and to police beating journalists who turned out to cover Miguna’s return to Kenya at Nairobi’s Jomo […]

South Africa: No proof of birth, no education

Published: 29/Mar/2018
Source: Mail & Guardian (South Africa)

By Bongekile Macupe Sonia Sigauke was only 10 years old when she dropped out of school in Mozambique. After seven years at home, aged 17, Sigauke came to South Africa to look for her mother. She had left Mozambique in […]

Mauritania: Administrative Obstacles Keep Kids from School

Published: 29/Mar/2018
Source: Human Rights Watch

(Tunis) – Mauritania’s national civil registration process is preventing some children from attending public school and taking mandatory national examinations, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should change its policies to ensure that no school-age child is deprived of […]

Kenya: Miguna: I’m held in tiny, filthy toilet without food and water

Published: 29/Mar/2018
Source: The Star (Nairobi)

By Felix Olick Fiery lawyer Miguna Miguna says that for three days he has been held captive in a filthy and cramped toilet since he landed on Monday at JKIA. The self-declared NRM ‘general’, who was dramatically detained after a […]

Kenya: Stop Arbitrary Detention of Lawyer at Airport

Published: 28/Mar/2018
Source: Human Rights Watch

Kenyan authorities should comply with court orders to release or produce in court the opposition lawyer Miguna Miguna, Human Rights Watch said today. Miguna, a Kenyan citizen who is being held in Kenya’s main airport in Nairobi, the Jomo Kenyatta […]

South Africa: Committee plans to shed light on Gupta citizenship

Published: 28/Mar/2018
Source: Business Day (South Africa)

By Bekezela Phakathi Parliament is pushing to get to the bottom of the controversial decision by the Department of Home Affairs to grant some members of the Gupta family South African citizenship. The home affairs portfolio committee agreed on Tuesday […]

Kenya: The Miguna Miguna story and what the elders might have said

Published: 28/Mar/2018
Source: The Nation (Kenya)

By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO The drama elicited by opposition activist Miguna Miguna’s deportation to Canada and the chaos around attempts to deport him a second time earlier in the week after the court ordered his passport returned has taken Kenya to […]

Kenya: Miguna refuses to fill citizenship forms at JKIA in Nairobi

Published: 27/Mar/2018
Source: Business Daily (Nairobi)

By Stella Cherono Impasse over lawyer Miguna Miguna’s return to Kenya persists at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi as his lawyer Cliff Ombeta says he will not fill citizenship forms issued by the Immigration department. Mr Ombeta on Tuesday […]

Kenya: Immigration boss sends Miguna citizenship forms at JKIA

Published: 27/Mar/2018
Source: Citizen TV (Nairobi)

By Wangui Ngechu The immigration department has moved in to resolve the Miguna Miguna entry standoff by sending application forms to the airport for him to regularise his citizenship status. In a press statement, Acting Director of Immigration Services Joseph Munywoki […]