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James Wanzala |
January 15th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Diana Gichengo, Programme Manager - Political Pluralism and Diversity at Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC).
Human rights groups under African Elections Watch have condemned the militarisation of Ugandan elections that was held yesterday, calling it a mockery.
Addressing a Press conference at Methodist Resort and Conference Centre in Nairobi, they said democracy had consistently been threatened in East Africa by the elections. The African Elections Watch is concerned about the mockery of democratic principles and processes in the General Election underway in Uganda. It tells of systematic violations on freedom of expression, association, rights to information and participation in public affairs through self-determination process of elections, said Diana Gichengo, Programme Manager - Political Pluralism and Diversity at Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC).
Nairobi, Dec. 13, 2020 Kenya is to grant citizenship to 1,600 stateless people from the Shona community who came to Kenya as missionaries.
President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the development for the stateless citizens, many of whom were born and raised in Kenya but could not be registered.
Nosizi Dube, who is among the beneficiaries of the citizenship issued on Saturday during ceremonies to mark Kenya’s 57th anniversary of independence from British colonial rule, said she is relieved her life-long struggle is over.
She said, as a stateless descendant of a Zimbabwean community in Kenya, she and her family were unable to fit into the society without a state to call her own.