Kenyan delegation visits CTED highlighting progress on Counter-Terrorism Committee recommendations

BMUSONI — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:18:00 +0000

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On 19 April 2017, the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) received a delegation from Kenya. During the meeting in New York, authorities conveyed the positive progress on border management and security issues highlighted during the visit to Kenya in February 2016 by CTED on behalf of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee.

The country visit was followed by the adoption by the Committee of a final report in March 2017, as well as an Overview for Implementation Assessment (OIA) and a Detailed Implementation Assessment (DIS). Kenya on its part affirmed its willingness to address the challenges of countering terrorism in the country, as well as its full commitment to engage regionally and internationally with the same objective.

Members of the Kenyan delegation included Major General (retired) Gordon Kihalangwa, Director of Immigration Services; Messrs. James Nyantigoh and Joseph Lenaiya, both with the Department of Immigration; and Sospeter Karani with the Permanent Mission of Kenya to the United Nations in New York.

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Regional workshop on bringing terrorists to justice held in Kenya

BMUSONI — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:11:00 +0000

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The UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) and the Government of Kenya, acting in cooperation with the Global Center on Cooperative Security and in accordance with Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001) and 2178 (2014), held a workshop on “Bringing Terrorists to Justice” from 22 to 24 October 2014 at the United Nations Office at Nairobi, the second of its kind.

The three-day workshop focussed on the conversion of information into evidence in terrorism cases. It notably included an interactive case study, designed to promote the principle of early cooperation and coordination, in which participating police officers and prosecutors worked together to identify and follow-up on investigative leads and develop the elements for a successful prosecution (including the collection of admissible evidence) in the context of preventive terrorist offences.

Around 25 law enforcement and intelligence officers and prosecutors from Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda explored a range of good practices to overcome the challenges of complex terrorism investigations, such as the use of inter-agency and cross-border cooperation to prevent and counter terrorism through the judicial process. Experts from CTED, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the African Prosecutors’ Association, the French judiciary, the Institute for Security Studies and the Global Center also participated.

The workshop was hosted by the Government of Kenya and implemented with the support of the Governments of Australia and New Zealand. The challenges addressed had been previously identified by participants in the First Regional Workshop for Law Enforcement Officers and Prosecutors in East Africa, held in Kampala in May 2013.

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Kenyan delegation visits CTED highlighting progress on Counter-Terrorism Committee recommendations

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Regional workshop on bringing terrorists to justice held in Kenya

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