Letter from Pambazuka News Editors

On 18 June 2001, a snippet was carried in Pambazuka News about two U.N. employees who appeared in a Kenyan court in connection with extorting money from refugees seeking resettlement. Pambazuka News is pleased to learn that one of these employees, Cyril Ubiem, has since been acquitted of all charges. "I was accused wrongly and vindicated by a non guilty court judgement ...I went through the normal process of the law and trials in the Kenyan courts and was acquitted of all the charges in July 2003,” Ubiem said in correspondence with Pambazuka News.