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Population: 39.7 mn.
GDP: 32.0 bn.
Debt: 5.7 bn.
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New, independent judges may block some candidates for the presidential election when the ICC confirms the charges against the Ocampo Six. The Somalia incursion could fizzle out or turn into a quagmire but Al Shabaab-inspired terrorism will increase regardless. 

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  • Vol 51 No 9
  •  30th April 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 Two weeks earlier, Murungi had withdrawn from her post as TJRC Vice-Chair, after calling with fellow Commissioner Ronald Slye for the...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
  •  16th April 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
  •  2nd April 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
  •  2nd April 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
  •  2nd April 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 Ronal...

  • Vol 51 No 5
  •  5th March 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
  •  19th February 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
  •  5th February 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

  • Vol 51 No 2
  •  22nd January 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
  •  8th January 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

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