Kenya: Rules Hitch Puts Marine Life At Pollution Risk

Posted to the web 16 July 2008 Ben Sanga Nairobi Marine life in Kenya's territorial waters in the Indian Ocean is not adequately protected against pollution due to the country's continued delay in the domestication of International Maritime Organisation protocols. It has also emerged that Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) has its hands tied from applying the crucial IMO conventions, as the country's Parliament is yet to incorporate them into law. The protocols in question include the Marpol convention and the 1992 Civil Liability Convention (CLC) which Kenya is party to - though it is yet to domesticate them. Marpol convention sets procedures of waste disposals by ships calling at any port of IMO member states, while CLC sets out compensations for any accidental... [read full story]