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Kenya

Population: 35.1 million
GNI: $20500 million
Debt: $5500 million
Overview: Political tensions will stay high as international mediators urge Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga to share power. The threat of governmental stalemate and communal violence damages the economy.

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  • Vol 49 No 3
  • 01/02/2008

Military options

At the height of this week’s violence in the Rift Valley, senior Kenyan politicians on both sides of the divide began discussing the possibility of a military intervention. Yet it would signify very different things for each side. For President Emilio Mwa...

  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

Handshakes at dusk

Much hard work lies ahead if the awkward meeting between Odinga is to lead to a resolution of the worsening crisis

  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

The heart of the matter

Pastor Robert Kipchoge Birgen of the African Inland Church in Chepsiria is an Oskar Schindler of the North Rift, a man who saved the lives of people hunted because of their ethnicity, which was not his. On the evening of 31 December, a day after the Elect...

  • Vol 49 No 1
  • 11/01/2008

Kenya moves closer to the edge

Both sides in Kenya’s election stand-off are looking into the abyss and a few politicians are preparing to jump. Without serious efforts now to resolve the impasse between Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity and Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement...

  • Vol 48 No 25
  • 14/12/2007

Closer and closer

In this watershed election, a new generation of politicians is challenging an establishment that dates back to the Independence years

  • Vol 48 No 25
  • 14/12/2007

Raila and Team Tinga

Odinga's oranges rally round

  • Vol 48 No 25
  • 14/12/2007

From the Muthaiga Club to the hustings

Who's who in the Kibaki campaign

  • Vol 48 No 24
  • 30/11/2007

The wrong report

Kenya and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are suppressing debate about increasing tension between Khartoum and the Government of Southern Sudan, and the resilience of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Some diplomats ...

  • Vol 48 No 23
  • 16/11/2007

Judges misjudged

A close-run election and corruption allegations will give judicial appointments extra significance

  • Vol 48 No 23
  • 16/11/2007

Promises and lies

This week, parties contesting the 27 December election are holding primary elections to choose their candidates. Next week, campaigning officially starts. President Mwai Kibaki is touring the country while his officials hand out copies of his glossy 1...

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