Kenya

Kenya

Population: 39.8 million
GDP: $30200 million
Debt: $23.4% of GDP
Overview:

President Mwai Kibaki’s and Premier Raila Odinga’s parties will remain divided over constitutional reform and prosecuting those behind the 2007 election violence; little prospect for change before the 2012 elections.

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news from Kenya

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  • Vol 51 No 10
  • 14/05/2010

Witnesses under threat

The 8-13 May visit of International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to Kenya allowed President Mwai Kibaki’s government to maintain the pretence that it is cooperating with the ICC. It also showed the Prosecutor the serious threats faced by a...

  • Vol 51 No 9
  • 30/04/2010

Worrying the witnesses

The people behind the post-election political violence are threatening witnesses and trying to derail the international investigation

  • Vol 51 No 9
  • 30/04/2010

Bye bye Betty

Betty Murungi’s resignation from the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission on 19 April may trigger its disbanding. Two weeks earlier, Murungi had withdrawn from her post as TJRC Vice-Chair, after calling with fellow Commissioner Ronald Slye for the...

  • Vol 51 No 8
  • 16/04/2010

German exile

News that Oku Kaunya, a former deputy Commandant in the Administration Police, has gone into exile in Germany will concentrate the minds of the investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC)who arrived in Nairobi last week. They are determined ...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  • 02/04/2010

A blow against impunity

The International Criminal Court is to probe election violence and may put some leading politicians and business people on trial for crimes against humanity

  • Vol 51 No 7
  • 02/04/2010

A dangerous compromise

The politicians' failure to agree on serious reform of the government risks a repeat of the 2007 election crisis

  • Vol 51 No 7
  • 02/04/2010

Kiplagat's truth

The mounting pressure on Bethuel Kiplagat, the Chairman of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, after the resignation of its deputy head Betty Murungi on 29 March, raises new doubts about the TJRC's future. In a column with Commissioner R...

  • Vol 51 No 5
  • 05/03/2010

Truth and Kiplagat

The position of Bethuel Kiplagat, Chairman of Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, is under serious threat since the calls for his resignation by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and ten other heads and members of earlier truth commi...

  • Vol 51 No 4
  • 19/02/2010

Maize splits the Grand Coalition

The Kibaki-Odinga courtship is over again and presidential contenders head for the brink before the 2012 elections

  • Vol 51 No 3
  • 05/02/2010

An American agreement

After a decade of arguments over sharing power at the centre, the politicians now agree they want a US-style presidential system

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