Kenya

Dennis Okeyo and John Otanga said they were attacked by soldiers from Kenya’s paramilitary force while they were attempting to cover politically motivated clashes in Kibera, a neighborhood in Nairobi, according to news reports and local journalists.

This is a report of a baseline survey on the right to information for internally displaced persons (IDPs) that was conducted by Article 19 Eastern Africa. The study sought to ascertain to what extent internally displaced persons in Kenya exercised their right of access to information at the different stages of displacement.

Exiled Somali journalists living in Nairobi were in disbelief this week when daily newspapers published a statement by the Department of Refugee Affairs ordering all Somali refugees to move to refugee camps. The order followed a series of grenade attacks in Kenya’s northeastern regions, where many exiled journalists live.

Okiya Omtatah Okoiti, the executive director of an organisation that advocates for transparency and accountability, was attacked in Nairobi, Kenya.

A blog entry by a Kenyan lawyer considers the government’s legislative and policy responses to the challenges of new media online.

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – Nairobi, 5 July 2012 – Today, ARTICLE 19 releases its legal analysis of the Internally Displaced Persons Bill for Kenya (“the Draft Bill”), welcoming the initiative to institutionalise protection and assistance for internally displaced persons (IDPs). The Draft Bill contains robust provisions to increase information flows to and from IDPs, but the […]

Kenya: Enhancing Information and Transparency for Internally Displaced Persons Mombasa, Kenya: ARTICLE 19 recently highlighted the critical issue of the right to information for internally displaced persons (IDPs). The international NGO delivered practical training sessions on the Right to Information for internally displaced persons to regional leaders and representatives of local community based organisations. Over […]

Joel Eshikumo said that unidentified callers had threatened him every night for a week, saying they would burn his house down and telling him to be prepared to die over the pictures he had taken in court.

The expansion comes as other, predominantly Western media houses are shrinking their media presence in East Africa.

In the analysis, ARTICLE 19 emphasises that transparency in campaign financing is indispensible for embedding accountability and integral to the promotion of good governance and democracy.

Both journalists told CPJ that unidentified men had been following them, which had forced them to hide in an undisclosed location.

At least 10 police officers in plainclothes surrounded “Daily Nation” reporter Suleiman Mbatiah, after he took photographs of an undercover traffic operation in Nakuru.

Kenya represents a beacon of regional press freedom, and the majority of regional journalists are able to continue to work in the media field without harassment.
But life in Nairobi is by no means glamorous.

The report highlights violations of journalists’ rights, such as the victimising of staff who lost their jobs after refusing to compromise their professional ethics. It features the case of Farah Lamaane, a former RBK senior editor who was forced to resign after complaining of unwarranted interference with editorial independence by the station’s management.

Many journalists in eastern Africa have faced the wrath of authorities for their criticism of government development projects, CPJ found.

ARTICLE 19 has analysed the Kenyan Publication of Electoral Opinions Bill, 2011 from the perspective of international and comparative standards on freedom of expression and freedom of information.