Political parties in Kenya have been holding primaries to choose the candidates who will represent them in the August General Polls. The process which kicked off on April 13th has been marred with chaos and violence. Police arrested armed men with machetes and whips seen disrupting a nomination exercise in some regions attacking party officials, accusing them of planning to rig the exercise.

In March 2017, there were 6,300 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including 500 administrative detainees, according to Addameer. [Reuters] An estimated 1500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers have declared the beginning of an open hunger strike on 17 April 2017.

“In several Western European countries, some politicians want to force imams to deliver sermons only in the official language: in Germany, imams should preach in German; in Italy, in Italian; in Britain, in English; in France, in French.

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