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Kenya

Population: 35.1 million
GNI: $20500 million
Debt: $5500 million
Overview: Political tensions will stay high as international mediators urge Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga to share power. The threat of governmental stalemate and communal violence damages the economy.

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  • Vol 49 No 17
  • 22/08/2008

How the fighting spread

A report shows how politicians, administrators and churchmen fostered the post-election slaughter and calls for their prosecution

  • Vol 49 No 17
  • 22/08/2008

The names and the shame

The August report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights lists many groups and individuals involved in the post-election violence but it is far from exhaustive.

  • Vol 49 No 16
  • 01/08/2008

Coalition under strain

There are tremors within the power-sharing grand coalition that ended the post-election mayhem

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

A hotel, a minister and a scandal

The newspapers and the ODM are having fun but what really happened?

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

The Colonel's shopping spree

Libyan investment in Kenya has grown over the past three years from almost nothing to an estimated tens of billions of Kenya shillings. The Libyans are now on a shopping spree, with the recent acquisition of a half share in the Kenya Petroleum Refinery C...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

Land grab

Plots in the 3,000 acre Moi Ndabi settlement scheme in Naivasha were laid out by the government in 1994 for victims of ethnic clashes. They went instead to politicians, civil servants, army officers and others favoured by the then government of Preside...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

Wako's war

Attorney General Amos Wako's delays in prosecuting officials accused of involvement in the Anglo Leasing scandals (AC Vol 45 No 11) means the Kenyan courts may dismiss the cases this month. This news emerges just as Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Jus...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

A slightly cracked coalition

The power-sharing government is shaken by scandals and tales of mass murder but nobody sees an alternative

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

Grand coalition - its divisions and prospects

The grand coalition government that emerged from a power-sharing agreement has largely succeeded in halting ethnic violence

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

Judge Kriegler looks into the elections

There is little prospect that the Independent Review Commission, chaired by South African Judge Johann Kriegler, will get to the bottom of the election skulduggery that triggered mass violence last December.

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