The courts in Kenya have been ruled as illegal and now are in need of constitutional reform.

Kenya’s Islamic courts are illegal and discriminatory, a panel of judges has ruled.

The three judges said the Islamic “Kadhi” courts favoured Islam over other faiths, and that this was unconstitutional as Kenya was a secular country.

The issue of Islamic courts has been a contentious point in the country’s new proposed constitution.

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