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The Land Control Act Cap 302restricts the ownership by non-citizens of agricultural land or land within land control areas. This land, in general terms, is land that is situated outside a municipality, a township, or a market or land that the Minister of Lands designates as being controlled and subject to the protections in the act. The Act in Section…

In the words of His Excellency President Uhuru Kenya, land is a critical enabler of all the pillars of the Big Four development agenda namely; universal healthcare, affordable housing, food security and manufacturing. The Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning formulated the Land Registration (Electronic Transactions) Regulations, 2020 vide a legal Notice 101 of June 2019. This was to provide…

PART 1: INTRODUCTION The Indian Ocean provides a great maritime space and sea-lanes that connects the great economies of the West and East. The Indian Ocean is the third largest sea in the world, linking East, South, South East and West Asia, as well as linking Africa and Europe. It is the waterway that makes the Asian trading systems possible.…

MARITIME DELIMITATION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rendered its judgment on the maritime dispute between Kenya and Somalia on 12th October, 2021. In this dispute, Somalia accused Kenya of adjusting the equidistance line in the maritime area to favor itself. In making these allegations, the country relied on the geodetic line, with an initial azimuth…

MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE IN KENYA From news exposés, to trending hashtags on social media, it is now common knowledge that medical malpractice is quite a recurrent menace in Kenya. For example, on the 2nd of March, 2018, The Standard Newspaper ran a heartbreaking story with the screaming headline, “KNH on the spot after brain surgery is performed on wrong patient.” Alex…