Author: Tom Maliti
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The Complex Search for Suspected Rwandan Genocidaires
The prosecutor of a United Nations tribunal has announced that his office has concluded its hunt for individuals who were suspected to bear the most responsibility for the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The Chief Prosecutor of the UN’s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), Serge Brammertz, said on May 15 he is winding up his…
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Has The President Jumped The Gun On Shakahola?
Has the government lost confidence in its investigation into the cult of Paul Mackenzie Nthenge even before it has concluded the exercise? How else does one explain President William Ruto appointing a commission of inquiry into Mackenzie’s cult on the same day the first phase of post-mortems was concluded? On May 5, Government Chief Pathologist…
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Can Servers Be Opened Without IEBC Commissioners In Office?
Among the demands that the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party (Azimio) made in its call for protests against government inaction, the one that was most likely to “set” the negotiating table was their call for a more broad-based process of selecting nominees to the Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC). This is the issue…
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Workers Of Kenya Unite… Or Not
As you watched the BBC Africa Eye documentary about the endemic sexual abuse of women casual labourers on the plantations Lipton Teas and Infusions and James Finlay owned in Kericho, you may have wondered where is the workers’ union in all of this? It is clear the companies failed to provide their women labourers with…
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The BBC’s ‘Sex for Work’: The Story Behind The Story
This was not the story BBC Africa Eye had set out to do. Tom Odula had pitched to the decision-makers at BBC Africa Eye a story about land in Kericho, how British companies came to own it and the lawsuit the Kericho County government had initiated in British courts. Odula got the go-ahead to do…
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No More Police Reforms?
Within weeks of President William Ruto taking office, there were reports of the police being demoralised, disaffected and demotivated. One newspaper reported that this disaffection led the people in blue to carry out a “go-slow”. The Star, in a November 7 story quoted unnamed police officers who said they were on a go-slow to protest…
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The Good, The Daunting and The Unsaid in Presidents’ Pressman
Lee Njiru has written a memoir sprinkled with humour, full of personal insights into the Kenyan presidency and the people who have worked closely with Kenya’s first two presidents. Njiru should have an idea about the Kenyan presidency because he worked for the Presidential Press Service (PPS) for about 25 years, from 1977 to 2002.…
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The World Cup Of Corruption
The World Cup is the football tournament I gladly set aside time for. It is a joy finding out every four years who are the new rising stars of men’s football. And four years later, it is a welcome surprise to see who among them has now matured to become anchors of their teams. France’s…
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CBC, The Second Coming Of 844 And Other Short Stories
Why does it seem like we have been here before? Students being given homework to make things, do things, rather than just answer questions in a book. Parents scratching their heads trying to find time to do their day job and work with and supervise their children as they do their homework. Parents still scratching…