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Byline: Mike Pflanz The highest-profile case at the International Criminal Court - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's crimes against humanity trial - looked closer to collapse than ever Wednesday as prosecutors [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz When they speed up to a lumbering ship, the main thing Somalian pirates do not want to see are armed guards. With fewer ships now being boarded [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Three years ago, Isse Yuluh's pirate gang hijacked a yacht being sailed around the world by a Danish family with three teens. The Danes were eventually freed [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Kenyans are five times more likely to be shot dead by police than by armed robbers, according to a new survey that highlights problems in what is [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz A Sudanese mother sentenced to death for 'abandoning' Islam for Christianity walked free from prison Monday after a court overturned her conviction, a rarity in a country [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz International pressure is growing on Sudan's government to intervene in the case of a woman who was sentenced to death when she was eight months pregnant for [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz When gunfire first rang out at Nairobi's most upscale mall on a Saturday morning six months ago, many people assumed it was an especially violent robbery. As [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz It's a little before midnight, and a matte-green Land Rover pickup with its headlights off and its dashboard darkened creeps along a dirt track beside a 10-foot-high [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Even as President Uhuru Kenyatta was giving his televised address on Tuesday, telling the world that the siege of Nairobi's Westgate mall was over, Kenya's 'netizens' were [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Islamist gunmen linked to Al Qaeda were holding dozens of hostages Sunday morning inside an upscale Kenyan mall, 24 hours after they stormed the building with heavy [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Kenya's deputy president pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity charges at the start of his International Criminal Court (ICC) trial Tuesday, when prosecutors alleged he tried [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Kenya's vice-president William Ruto Monday flew to Europe to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he will become the first sitting deputy head of state [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz A day after Kenya turned its back on the International Criminal Court (ICC), officials at the Hague-based tribunal say they will not allow Kenya's vice president to [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz A huge fire destroyed the arrivals hall and immigration unit at East Africa's busiest airport early Wednesday, grounding flights and leaving thousands of passengers including summer vacationers [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz The US and British governments are 'turning a blind eye' to human rights abuses carried out to force Ethiopian nomads off their land so that it can [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Less than halfway through a two-day HIV/AIDS summit in Nigeria, Sudanese president Omar Al Bashir flew home as activists launched legal action to force his arrest for [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Nigeria was accused Tuesday of joining the ranks of African nations defying the International Criminal Court when it refused to detain Sudan's president, Omar Al Bashir, during [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Judges trying a high-profile case related to Kenya's 2007 election violence suggested some proceedings could be moved from The Hague to East Africa, causing alarm among victims. [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Kenya's ambassador to the United Nations has launched a strongly worded attack on the International Criminal Court, urging the Security Council to halt trials against his country's [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Two Iranians accused by Israel of planning to target its citizens in East Africa face 15 years in a Kenyan prison after they were found guilty of [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Al Shabab militants killed 19 people Sunday in bomb attacks that targeted Mogadishu's main court complex and an aid convoy, underscoring the fact that Somalia's weakened Al [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz In a surprise move, Sudan's president Omar Al Bashir announced this week he will release all political prisoners and launch talks with opposition groups. Today his government [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz The imprisonment of a Somali journalist and the conviction of a rape victim who told him her story have raised a storm of international protest with critics [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Kenya's second-most senior judge should be removed from office after allegedly threatening to shoot a security guard at an upscale Nairobi shopping mall, a tribunal ruled Monday. [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz The kidnapping of two Western tourists from their beachfront holiday homes in an upmarket resort on Kenya's north coast has raised fears of a worrying shift in [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz After more than a year of investigations, the chief prosecutor of the world's sole war-crimes tribunal has accused six prominent Kenyans of orchestrating the post-election violence that [...]

Byline: Scott Baldauf, Mike Pflanz Six men were accused in the International Criminal Court Wednesday of crimes against humanity for their role in the ethnic violence that tore apart Kenya [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz, Scott Baldauf For the last 388 days, Paul and Rachel Chandler slept in tents in the Somali bush, surviving on goat meat and tinned spaghetti. On Monday [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz International efforts to prosecute Somali pirates have hit a major snag that could see nearly 70 suspected pirates walk free from prison. In a landmark ruling Tuesday, [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Kenya's higher education minister was first to go last week, followed by Nairobi's mayor, and now the foreign minister and his permanent secretary. The series of senior [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Kenya is missing its best opportunity for bringing those responsible for post-election violence to justice, a team of senior international lawyers tells the Monitor, adding that it's [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Kenya's president has suspended a key minister over a nine-year-old corruption case, raising hopes here that anti-graft laws in the country's new Constitution will be applied forcefully. [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz, Scott Baldauf A double suicide bombing against members of Somalia's parliament has raised concern that Somalia's Al Shabab militants - an Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group - are [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz A suicide strike by two bombers suspected to have belonged to an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somaliakilled at least 32 people Tuesday, including six legislators from the [...]

Byline: Scott Baldauf, Mike Pflanz, Max Delany Minutes before the final whistle blew on Africa's first World Cup, twin bombs claimed by Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab Islamists ripped through [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz On a busy road within sight of the white sands of Kenya's Indian Ocean beaches, a stone's throw from luxury tourist hotels, a tall, black, barred gate [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Kenyan police routinely abuse men, women, and children fleeing violence in Islamist-dominated Somalia and demand bribes to allow them to reach the safety of refugee camps, a [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Nairobi, Kenya -- A suicide bombing at a Somali student graduation ceremony which killed three government ministers and at least 16 [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Nairobi, Kenya -- Almost exactly a year ago, a handful of modern-day pirates from Somalia in small, open skiffs shocked the [...]

Byline: Scott Baldauf and Mike Pflanz Staff writer and correspondent Johannesburg and Nairobi -- That Kenya's top political leaders would attempt to protect their own people was inevitable, just as [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Nairobi, Kenya -- It's been a busy week in Kenya. Torrential rains ended a months-long drought. A new Constitution was drafted. [...]

Byline: Scott Baldauf and Mike Pflanz Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Johannesburg; and Nairobi, Kenya -- The arrival of Luis Moreno-Ocampo [...]

Byline: Mike Pflanz Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Nairobi, Kenya -- One of the four most wanted men accused of directing Rwanda's 1994 genocide was handed over to officials [...]

RIOT police fired tear gas and beat women protesting outside a Sudanese court yesterday in support of Lubna Hussein, the woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public. Inside […]