{"id":25490,"date":"2010-05-25T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/05\/25\/africa-news-items-of-interest\/"},"modified":"2010-05-25T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T06:57:09","slug":"africa-news-items-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/africa-news-items-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa news items of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenya court rules Islamic courts are illegal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Kenya’s Islamic courts are illegal and discriminatory, a panel of judges has ruled.<\/p>\n

The three judges said the Islamic “Kadhi” courts favoured Islam over other faiths, and that this was unconstitutional as Kenya was a secular country. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

South Africa’s Julius Malema defends his radical views<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\nThe controversial leader of South Africa’s youth league has defended his behaviour after being disciplined by the ruling ANC.<\/p>\n

Julius Malema had provoked anger with a series of outbursts about race, Zimbabwe and Jacob President Zuma.<\/p>\n

In a BBC interview, he efused to admit he had done anything wrong, and brushed aside the measures taken against him. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nEU trains 400 Somalis in Uganda<\/a> and Somalis clash with Ethiopia forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kenya Inches Closer to New Constitution <\/a> but churches oppose it on anti-choice grounds:<\/p>\n

Kenya’s interim electoral commission has released the official symbols that will guide voters in an August 4 referendum on a proposed new constitution for the country.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The East African nation voted in a similar referendum in 2005, and 57 per cent of voters returned a “No” vote. The current draft constitution has faced strong opposition from Christian churches, which argue that it leaves loopholes for abortion by choice. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenya court rules Islamic courts are illegal Kenya’s Islamic courts are illegal and discriminatory, a panel of judges has ruled. The three judges said the Islamic “Kadhi” courts favoured Islam over other faiths, and that this was unconstitutional as Kenya was a secular country. South Africa’s Julius Malema defends his radical views The controversial leader … Continue reading Africa news items of interest<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6D8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}