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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  • Vol 51 No 2
  • 22/01/2010

The international Islamist

The row over the fate of Jamaican Islamist Abdullah al Faisal points to political and security failures in Africa and the West

  • Vol 51 No 1
  • 08/01/2010

Who is heading for the Hague?

A heavily contested referendum and trials at the ICC are likely to divide the shaky coalition as it tries to agree on key reforms

  • Vol 51 No 1
  • 08/01/2010

Drought and politics

The economy’s prospects will be deeply influenced by the constitutional referendum and probable political violence trials at the Hague. Political ructions could set back the fragile recovery and cause more capital flight. The prolonged drought has led ...

  • Vol 50 No 25
  • 18/12/2009

Rough ride

New constitutional proposals would take powers from the presidency and give more to the regions but would not end the arguments

  • Vol 50 No 23
  • 20/11/2009

Mr Moreno-Ocampo goes to Nairobi

The President and the Premier are ambivalent about the ICC's plan to prosecute some of the political violence cases

  • Vol 50 No 21
  • 23/10/2009

Jolly Roger justice

As attacks by Somali pirates increase in the Gulf of Aden, the trials of those captured during the last ten months begin in Mombasa

  • Vol 50 No 21
  • 23/10/2009

Turkana hunger

As neighbouring Ethiopia takes the unusual step of asking for food aid, for 6.2 million people, Kenya's Turkana Province members of Parliament are coming under pressure to force the government to try to stem a famine which could strike early next year (AC...

  • Vol 50 No 20
  • 08/10/2009

Leaving the door open

Eighteen months after the murderous clashes, the government remains ambivalent about trying the sponsors of the post-election violence

  • Vol 50 No 19
  • 25/09/2009

The row over Aaron Ringera

The reappointment of the anti-corruption chief opens a rift between Parliament and President Mwai Kibaki as top politicians come under fire

  • Vol 50 No 19
  • 25/09/2009

Bondo welcomes Kibaki

A spirit of amity, barely two months old, appears to have stabilised the coalition government. It was ushered in by President Mwai Kibaki's trip to Nyanza, Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Luo stronghold, the first such visit since his controversial re-el...

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