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Kenya
Population: 39.7 mn.
GDP: 32.0 bn.
Debt: 5.7 bn.
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  • Vol 47 No 13
  •  23rd June 2006

The Armenian connection

Guns, police, parties - mysterious businessmen claim links with powerful politicians

  • Vol 47 No 12
  •  9th June 2006

The cocaine conspiracy

The Kibaki government's bizarre handling of a multimillion dollar drug smuggling case is letting the real villains walk free

  • Vol 47 No 11
  •  26th May 2006

Slapping the messenger

They may descend into farce but attacks on the media are no laughing matter

  • Vol 47 No 11
  •  26th May 2006

Uncle Sam's ban

The United States' decision to bar four prominent businessmen - Alfred Getonga, Jimmy Wanjigi, Deepak Kimani and Anura Perera - named in former anti-corruption czar John Githongo's dossier breaks with Western governments' usual practice of sanctioning pol...

  • Vol 47 No 10
  •  12th May 2006

The new two

Top ministers fall from grace and the new ones may lack the weight to stop the rot

  • Vol 47 No 8
  •  14th April 2006

The inspectors call

There was a 'deliberate and concerted effort' to award a US$10-million pre-shipment inspection contract in September 2005 to Switzerland's Société Générale de Surveillance and Britain's Intertek International in breach of the g...

  • Vol 47 No 6
  •  17th March 2006

In the hole

The government keeps digging for corruption but sinks lower as it digs

  • Vol 47 No 6
  •  17th March 2006

Biting the snake

'If you prod a rattlesnake, you must be prepared to be bitten', is how Kenya's Internal Security Minister, John Njoroge Michuki, explained the police raids on the night of 1 March. The decision to raid KTN-TV and put it off the air and then plunder the of...

  • Vol 47 No 4
  •  17th February 2006

The hawks are circling

President Mwai Kibaki has been fatally wounded by his government's corruption scandals

  • Vol 47 No 3
  •  3rd February 2006

Going down with the ship

Finance Minister David Mwiraria is the first domino to fall as the government faces a growing anti-corruption backlash

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