Kenya: Can Special Court Tackle Election Violence?
Debate continues over how special court can best hold perpetrators to account.
Debate continues over how special court can best hold perpetrators to account.
Development is a further setback to the court’s work in Kenya, but does not halt legal process.
Supporters of ICC urge prosecutors to probe allegations that officials have targeted witnesses.
Trial of deputy president will now begin in September as judges weigh possibility of hearings in Kenya or Tanzania.
Commentators say it is too early to stop funding work to build lasting peace at community level.
Public debate elicits strong views on Hague cases and wider issues of accountability.
They say underhand tactics were used to discredit their campaigns.
New leadership needs to move from ethnically-based politics to a more inclusive form of government, experts say.
Deputy president wants trial date postponed, and asks to be excused from attending in person.
Despite widespread fears of violence in the Nairobi slum, the general election in March went off peacefully.