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President Kibaki's authority hangs by a thread after a botched government reshuffle

Facing total disaster after a reshuffle fiasco last week in which a third of the new ministers turned down their appointments, President Mwai Kibaki has managed to entice Musikari Kombo of the Forum for Democracy-Kenya and Charity Ngilu of the National Party of Kenya back into his coalition government....

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