Kenya

Kenya

Population: 39.8 million
GDP: $30200 million
Debt: $23.4% of GDP
Overview:

President Mwai Kibaki’s and Premier Raila Odinga’s parties will remain divided over constitutional reform and prosecuting those behind the 2007 election violence; little prospect for change before the 2012 elections.

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  • Vol 51 No 17
  • 27/08/2010

Turning a corner

Kenya is euphoric again. After barely averting civil war following the 2007 elections, the approval of a new constitution by referendum marks a dramatic turn in the country’s political fortunes (AC Vol 51 No 16). The 27 August launch of the constitutio...

  • Vol 51 No 16
  • 06/08/2010

This time a peaceful vote

After a decisive referendum, Kenyans have a constitution that will shake up both the political system and the party fiefdoms

  • Vol 51 No 16
  • 06/08/2010

Rumbles in the Rift

Such was the tension in the Rift Valley as the referendum neared that a drunken brawl in a shebeen in Nandi District between a Nandi man and his Kisii friend swiftly formed the core of a rumour that evictions of non-Kalenjin had already started.

  • Vol 51 No 15
  • 23/07/2010

More gluttony

An attempt by MPs to vote themselves a fat pay rise comes unstuck – the Treasury is running out of money

  • Vol 51 No 14
  • 09/07/2010

Mungiki’s new man

Maina Njenga’s evolution from gang leader to born-again Christian to aspiring candidate highlights the breakdown of Kenyan politics

  • Vol 51 No 14
  • 09/07/2010

Criminal business is big business

Mungiki started as a Kikuyu quasi-revivalist religious cult in the Rift Valley’s Laikipia District in the late 1980s. Many Mungiki members lost their land in the 1990s when President Daniel arap Moi’s government presided over state-orchestrated elector...

  • Vol 51 No 13
  • 25/06/2010

The battle for the basic law

Campaigning for next month’s constitutional referendum is a mixture of ideology, religion and personal ambition – and now the thugs have moved in

  • Vol 51 No 13
  • 25/06/2010

Yes, No and in between

A few weeks ago, Prime Minister Raila Odinga declared that securing a new constitution was a government project, which therefore deserved state funding while the campaign against the draft constitution did not. Five years ago, his old rival, then Justice ...

  • Vol 51 No 13
  • 25/06/2010

Bombing the campaign

Police and politicians are struggling to work out who hoped to gain from the grenade attack which killed six people at an evangelical Christian rally in Uhuru Park on 13 June. Most of the people at the rally had gathered to show their opposition to the pr...

  • Vol 51 No 12
  • 11/06/2010

The rise of the watermelons

The constitutional referendum is splitting parties, creating bizarre alliances and foreshadowing the 2012 elections

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