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Population: 39.7 mn.
GDP: 32.0 bn.
Debt: 5.7 bn.
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  • Vol 47 No 3
  •  3rd February 2006

The anti-corruption czar, the businessman and his lawyer

Why did the lawyers of Cyprus-based businessman Anura Perera try to arrange a private meeting with anti-corruption czar John Githongo in a London hotel in late 2004? This question is part of the tortuous claim and counter claim in an ongoing case in the N...

  • Vol 46 No 25
  •  16th December 2005

Mwai's muddle

President Kibaki's authority hangs by a thread after a botched government reshuffle

  • Vol 46 No 24
  •  2nd December 2005

Smashing the fruit bowl

The people's rejection of the president's draft constitution has killed the Rainbow coalition

  • Vol 46 No 24
  •  2nd December 2005

Oranges up, bananas down

The referendum has relaunched or unmade several political careers: Raila Odinga: The referendum brought his rivalry with President Mwai Kibaki to a head. Their 2002 alliance to oust the ruling Kenya African National Union was a marriage of convenience. Od...

  • Vol 46 No 23
  •  18th November 2005

Corruption poll

The government now looks likely to lose the 21 November constitutional referendum, barring a last-minute swing of voter sentiment. Some 42 per cent of Kenyans polled by the independent Steadman/Gallup international survey said they would vote against the ...

  • Vol 46 No 21
  •  21st October 2005

A proxy election

Orange Revolutionarie smell victory over Banana Republicans in the constitution campaign

  • Vol 46 No 18
  •  9th September 2005

Banana-skin vote

There's many a slip ahead, in the referendum and its constitutional consequences

  • Vol 46 No 18
  •  9th September 2005

Githongo picks up the glove

Exiled anti-corruption czar John Githongo is to return to Kenya next month to hand a detailed dossier on his investigations into parliament's Public Accounts Committee. This follows a challenge from Planning Minister Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, who asked Githo...

  • Vol 46 No 16
  •  5th August 2005

Dancing partners

President Kibaki praises the dissident Odinga and is embarrassed by his friend Murungaru

  • Vol 46 No 14
  •  8th July 2005

Making up

The governing Rainbow Coalition looks united for a change. Will it last?

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