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Population: 39.7 mn.
GDP: 32.0 bn.
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  • Vol 51 No 16
  •  6th August 2010

Rumbles in the Rift

Such was the tension in the Rift Valley as the referendum neared that a drunken brawl in a shebeen in Nandi District between a Nandi man and his Kisii friend swiftly formed the core of a rumour that evictions of non-Kalenjin had already started.

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

More gluttony

An attempt by MPs to vote themselves a fat pay rise comes unstuck – the Treasury is running out of money

  • Vol 51 No 14
  •  9th July 2010

Mungiki’s new man

Maina Njenga’s evolution from gang leader to born-again Christian to aspiring candidate highlights the breakdown of Kenyan politics

  • Vol 51 No 14
  •  9th July 2010

Criminal business is big business

Mungiki started as a Kikuyu quasi-revivalist religious cult in the Rift Valley’s Laikipia District in the late 1980s. Many Mungiki members lost their land in the 1990s when President Daniel arap Moi’s government presided over state-orchestrated electoral ...

  • Vol 51 No 13
  •  25th June 2010

The battle for the basic law

Campaigning for next month’s constitutional referendum is a mixture of ideology, religion and personal ambition – and now the thugs have moved in

  • Vol 51 No 13
  •  25th June 2010

Yes, No and in between

A few weeks ago, Prime Minister Raila Odinga declared that securing a new constitution was a government project, which therefore deserved state funding while the campaign against the draft constitution did not. Five years ago, his old rival, then Justice ...

  • Vol 51 No 13
  •  25th June 2010

Bombing the campaign

Police and politicians are struggling to work out who hoped to gain from the grenade attack which killed six people at an evangelical Christian rally in Uhuru Park on 13 June. Most of the people at the rally had gathered to show their opposition to the pr...

  • Vol 51 No 12
  •  11th June 2010

The rise of the watermelons

The constitutional referendum is splitting parties, creating bizarre alliances and foreshadowing the 2012 elections

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 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
  •  30th April 2010

Worrying the witnesses

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

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