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 50 No 17
  • 28/08/2009

Who (if anybody) will try the killers?

A fair trial for murderous politicians seems as unlikely as ever, despite the latest proposal

  • Vol 50 No 17
  • 28/08/2009

Mixed messages and sanction threats

Western governments responded swiftly when last month Kenya failed to set up a special tribunal to try those responsible for the 2007 post-election violence and suggested it might use the new Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission instead (AC Vol...

  • Vol 50 No 17
  • 28/08/2009

The commissioners of the TJRC

On 3 August, the government swore in nine commissioners for its Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, including six Kenyans and three foreigners.

  • Vol 50 No 16
  • 07/08/2009

The hard road to truth, justice and reconciliation

President Mwai Kibaki's 23 July appointment of Bethuel Kiplagat to chair Kenya's newly created Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission is problematic. Some suspect the government will use the TJRC to exonerate any senior politician convicted of elect...

  • Vol 50 No 16
  • 07/08/2009

A 'government of national impunity'

The fractious coalition government of President Mwai Kibaki and Premier Raila Odinga may have finally agreed on something: to let impunity reign. Kenyans speak of the transition from a 'government of national unity' to a 'government of national impunit...

  • Vol 50 No 15
  • 24/07/2009

Kofi Annan puts politicians on the spot over poll violence

Options narrow after the International Criminal Court receives the list of suspects

  • Vol 50 No 15
  • 24/07/2009

Kenyan politicians face new deadline

Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary General, made his announcement about handing over the envelope containing the list of the accused to the International Criminal Court just six days after meeting a Kenyan government delegation in Geneva, ...

  • Vol 50 No 15
  • 24/07/2009

The CIPEV's recommendations

Recommendations from the Waki Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV), Part V, Chapter 13.

  • Vol 50 No 13
  • 26/06/2009

Good news for some

Three main groups should do well out of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta's maiden budget: Kenya's 210 elected members of parliament and its millionaires and commercial bankers. Kenyatta, who is also Minister of Finance, proposes to use the 210 cons...

  • Vol 50 No 12
  • 12/06/2009

Uhuru's accounting crisis

A series of mathematical blunders complicates preparations for the budget and suggests a government cover-up

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