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Kenya
Population: 39.7 mn.
GDP: 32.0 bn.
Debt: 5.7 bn.
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  • Vol 49 No 6
  •  14th March 2008

Second honeymoon for the money men

Following the political deal this month, Kenyans are hoping for another deal to restart the economy. Conservative estimates put the cost of the post-election crisis at around US$1.5 billion and the loss of more than 1,000 lives. Yet the effects of more th...

  • Vol 49 No 6
  •  14th March 2008

Trans-Century and transcendental

Formed a decade ago, Trans-Century Limited has grown over the past five years to become the biggest private equity firm in East Africa, with a multimillion dollar portfolio. It has interests in cabling, information technology, power, rail transport, haula...

  • Vol 49 No 6
  •  14th March 2008

Life after a game of golf

President Mwai Kibaki and putative Prime Minister Raila Odinga spent the day together at the Karen Open, Nairobi's most prestigious golf tournament on 10 March. Spectacularly out of place on the golf course in ties and suits, the two politicians smiled be...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

The Harambee House deal

A compromise deal has pulled the rival parties back from the brink but much detail still has to be resolved

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

An outbreak of cordiality

In the aftermath of the signing of the power-sharing agreement on 28 February, Raila Odinga turned to his adversary, addressing him as 'My countryman, President Mwai Kibaki'. Ever the politician, 63-year-old Odinga always publicly refers to 76-year-old Ki...

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 2008

The safari talks

Signs of progress, however elusive, are boosting hopes for a deal but the militias are rearming - just in case

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 2008

Message from the wazungu

Outsiders have been belatedly increasing pressure on Kenya's feuding politicians as former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan moved the negotiating teams to the secluded Kilaguni Safari Lodge in the Tsavo West National Park. The cacophony of mixe...

  • Vol 49 No 3
  •  1st February 2008

The soldiers wait in the wings

After another spate of murderous attacks and high level political obstruction, many see military intervention as a desperate remedy

  • Vol 49 No 3
  •  1st February 2008

The spurned advisor at State House

Confidence at State House was knocked by their party’s appalling parliamentary results in the 27 December elections and the furore over the disputed presidential vote. For several days, President Mwai Kibaki’s officials seemed chronically divided over pol...

  • Vol 49 No 3
  •  1st February 2008

Military options

At the height of this week’s violence in the Rift Valley, senior Kenyan politicians on both sides of the divide began discussing the possibility of a military intervention. Yet it would signify very different things for each side. For President Emilio Mwa...

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