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Kenya
Population: 39.7 mn.
GDP: 32.0 bn.
Debt: 5.7 bn.
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  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 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 Co...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 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 President ...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 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 Justice...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  •  4th July 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
  •  23rd May 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
  •  23rd May 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.

  • Vol 49 No 11
  •  23rd May 2008

Money battles

This week, Finance Minister Amos Kimunya has downplayed talk of a looming budget crisis and slumping growth rates. His determined optimism follows a statement by National Development Minister Wycliffe Oparanya that the government faced an estimated budget...

  • Vol 49 No 9
  •  25th April 2008

In the fog of peace

A new, overstuffed government brings back familiar faces but offers few hopes of reconstruction

  • Vol 49 No 9
  •  25th April 2008

Gluttons for punishment

The new ministerial team is Kenya’s most expensive ever: 42 ministers and 52 assistant ministers out of 222 members of parliament – 42% of all MPs. President Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity had wanted a total of 44 ministers, including the 17 loyali...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  •  11th April 2008

Cabinet crisis

The suspension on 8 April of negotiations over cabinet portfolios risks taking the country back to the turmoil of January and February. Just after Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement announced that it was pulling out of the talks, violence broke out...

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