Quotes

‘The repeal alone will not be the panacea. We now have an opportunity to address teething issues of encroachment from logging and farming and to put in place a national forest development programme to restore and grow our forests to serve present and future generations.’ 

Daryl Mensah-Bonsu of Da Rocha Ghana, an environmental advocacy group, on Ghana's banning of mining in forest reserves

‘Once Kenya's medical and epidemiological data is transferred abroad, the harm becomes permanent and irreversible. Neither this honorable court nor Kenyan regulators would have the power to recall, restrict, or oversee how such data is used overseas.’

The Consumers Federation of Kenya, in the Kenya High Court, challenging the Kenya-US Health Co-operation Framework Agreement that was signed in Washington on 4 December 

‘The RSF has shown again and again that it is willing to target civilians – including infants and young children. Its brutality has deepened the conflict and destabilised the region, creating the conditions for terrorist groups to grow,’

John Hurley, US Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, when imposing sanctions on a network accused of recruiting fighters for the civil war in Sudan and supporting the Rapid Support Forces