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Kenya
Population: 39.7 mn.
GDP: 32.0 bn.
Debt: 5.7 bn.
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  • Vol 44 No 19
  •  26th September 2003

Murder most foul, again

The battle for constitutional reform has become murderous and the fall-out could split the Kibaki government

  • Vol 44 No 19
  •  26th September 2003

Facing Mount Kenya

At the apex of President Mwai Kibaki's coalition government, a Kikuyu cabal known as 'the Mount Kenya mafia' is tightening its grip. The group includes several former firebrands of Kenya's pro-democracy movement who have quickly exchanged the idealism of ...

  • Vol 44 No 15
  •  25th July 2003

Kenya: Virtue unrewarded

Donors and investors are not backing Kenya's new democracy with the cash it needs

  • Vol 44 No 11
  •  30th May 2003

NARCotic

The governing coalition is quarrelsome but greedy MPs help prevent a split

  • Vol 44 No 7
  •  4th April 2003

Victory is not enough

A row about government posts and the new constitution threatens the ruling coalition

  • Vol 44 No 4
  •  21st February 2003

Musyoka's message

Foreign Minister Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka's swing through Washington and London last week reinforced the aid-for-security cooperation trade-off dominating Kenyan policy. President Mwai Kibaki's government will get military training from the United States, ...

  • Vol 44 No 2
  •  24th January 2003

On the mend

Constitutional and economic reform top the new government's priority list

  • Vol 44 No 2
  •  24th January 2003

The Unbwogables

The businesslike buzz of President Mwai Kibaki's State House is a world apart from his predecessor Daniel arap Moi's more gregarious style. Kibaki's team is known as the Unbwogables (unbeatables) and he has assumed the style of an avuncular company chairm...

  • Vol 44 No 2
  •  24th January 2003

Foundation stoned

Former President Daniel arap Moi's new project the Moi Foundation has already hit some obstacles.

  • Vol 43 No 25
  •  20th December 2002

The big men look to the future

As President Moi prepares to retire, his fello septuagenarian President Mugabe continues the battle for power

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