Blow to women as Kenyan MPs opt to indefinitely postpone two-thirds gender rule

The prospect of more women joining politics on the back of the current constitutional requirement was shattered Thursday with the publication of a new bill that postpones indefinitely the requirement of the two-thirds gender rule.

The move appears to be the final plot in the scheming of lawmakers to dodge the judicial deadline to ensure the number of women in the country's two houses of Parliament is at least one-third.