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Kenya Country Report
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Found 196 articles.
- 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
- Vol 51 No 10
- 14/05/2010
Witnesses under threat
The 8-13 May visit of International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to Kenya allowed President Mwai Kibaki’s government to maintain the pretence that it is cooperating with the ICC. It also showed the Prosecutor the serious threats faced by a...
- Vol 51 No 9
- 30/04/2010
Worrying the witnesses
The people behind the post-election political violence are threatening witnesses and trying to derail the international investigation
- Vol 51 No 9
- 30/04/2010
Bye bye Betty
Betty Murungi’s resignation from the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission on 19 April may trigger its disbanding. Two weeks earlier, Murungi had withdrawn from her post as TJRC Vice-Chair, after calling with fellow Commissioner Ronald Slye for the...
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