Doctors’ union officials one-month suspended jail sentence yesterday was postponed for five days. Employment and Labour Relations Court Justice Hellen Wasilwa had given them until yesterday to end their strike or be jailed for one month. The union filed an application for the sentence to be suspended for an additional two weeks. “The extension is not for negotiations but with a view to calling off the strike,” Wasilwa said. And a mediating team from the Kenya Medical Association, the Senate and the Kenya Human Rights Commission to be part of the process.

Source: The Star January 26, 2017 21:22 UTC