Kenya: Inept or Corrupt? Kenya Falters on Fraud Cases
Mon, Aug 30, 2021 | 8:37 am

Source As Uganda prepared to send South Sudanese Lawrence Malong Yor Junior behind bars for defrauding a South African businessman Sh106 million in a gold scam, Kenyan Kevin Obia, who was a week earlier found guilty of the same crime, was criticising the Judiciary. After a lengthy six year trial that at some point seemed […]


Court sends First Community Bank and real estate developer to arbitration in Sh210m dispute
Mon, Aug 30, 2021 | 8:19 am

Source A court has barred a bank from disposing of a property in Riruta, Nairobi, in a Sh246 million loan dispute with a real estate developer and referred the matter for arbitration. Commercial court judge Grace Ngenye ordered First Community Bank and Isaac’s Investments Company Limited to look for arbitrator who understands Sharia law to settle the dispute. “The dispute herein between the plaintiff and the defendant is referred to arbitration. An order be and is hereby issued that the parties […]


Binance lawsuit: Claimants mount up in arbitration for decentralization
Mon, Aug 30, 2021 | 8:09 am

Source When does decentralization stop being an experiment in technological democracy and start being a way to avoid accountability? That’s the question at the heart of a potential $100 million arbitration lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Binance, where close to 1,000 traders seek damages for losses suffered during the site’s outage on May 19. Binance experienced technical issues […]


How this microfinance firm is empowering women entrepreneurs in rural India with an app
Mon, Aug 30, 2021 | 7:51 am

Source India’s fifth National Family Health Survey, which captured the data during the period of 2019 and 2020, hinted at a wide digital divide in the country. While the initial editions of the survey, being conducted since 1990s, focused on factors like infant & child mortality, maternal & child health, family planning and the quality […]


Submit claims of land injustice by September 21
Mon, Aug 30, 2021 | 7:21 am

Submit claims of land injustice by September 21 (the-star.co.ke) Coast region residents have for years been complaining that outsiders seized their land, making many of them squatters. There have been claims leading families grabbed vast swathes of land at the Coast in the early days of Independence. Cases have been documented in the Truth, Justice […]