Kenya Company Sues Government for Corruption in International Court

On July 19, 2001, Coastal Aquacultural, a Kenya registered company, sued the Kenyan government for $1 billion in damages and loss of earnings in an international court established in Lusaka in 1994 by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) to seek damages from the government due to loss of money as a result of alleged government corruption. Comesa is a trade agreement between 20 African countries with its court of justice modeled on the European Union’s European Court of Justice…[more]