DERELA UPDATE

The Kenyan government said on Friday it will go to the country's top court to challenge a ruling that halted President Uhuru Kenyatta's bid to change the constitution, a source of growing controversy ahead of next year's polls. The sweeping reforms -- popularly known as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)-- have been touted as a way to end repeated cycles of election violence by expanding the executive and parliament to more evenly divide the spoils of victory.  But a High Court in Nairobi in May ruled that the proposed amendments to the 2010 constitution were illegal and that Kenyatta could himself face legal action for launching the process. The government challenged that judgement, but the Court of Appeal on August 20 confirmed it in a majority decision by the seven-member panel. It said Kenyatta had no right to initiate the changes, which could have dramatically shifted the political landscape with less than a year before the country votes in August 9 presidential and...

  George W Bush   has defended his decision to invade   Afghanistan   after 9/11 attacks on America, years after his administration claimed they have “eliminated” the   Taliban   and   al-Qaeda   from Afghanistan. The former US president gave a first hand account of the happenings of the deadliest day in the history of the country in 2001, speaking in a new documentary “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” on BBC. “I made some big decisions. Starting with the big thought of America being at war,” Mr Bush said on the show, in first comments ahead of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. “And those decisions were not made out of anger, they were made with a goal in mind, which was to protect the American people. I think I was right,” he added. Less than a month after the attacks that killed 2,996 people, Mr Bush declared a “ war on terror ” to begin the 20-year-long war in Afghanistan which has killed 2,800 US military personnel and allie...