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Kenya Country Report
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Found 199 articles.
- 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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