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 9
  • 01/05/2009

Who is in charge here?

The coalition government looks irreparably split but Speaker Kenneth Marende has offered a temporary fix

  • Vol 50 No 7
  • 03/04/2009

A reform deadline for the rivals

A year after the power-sharing accord, political change is faltering and the police are shooting human rights activists

  • Vol 50 No 7
  • 03/04/2009

Inside the sealed envelope

A sealed envelope with the names of ten people judged by Justice Philip Waki's Commission to be the most important financiers and organisers of last year's post-election violence (AC Vol 49 No 22) is one of the few forms of pressure that former United ...

  • Vol 50 No 7
  • 03/04/2009

In office, but not in power

Raila Odinga’s office is not running smoothly: his small staff are at odds and are holding up the reforms

  • Vol 50 No 6
  • 20/03/2009

An African 'war on terror'

The murder of an activist and the police reaction to a criminal conspiracy reveal another dark side of Kenyan politics

  • Vol 50 No 5
  • 06/03/2009

Pushing Wako

Kenya’s long-serving Attorney General, Amos Shitswila Wako, has been targeted for special censure by United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Philip Alston, who has been investigating the extra-judicial killing ...

  • Vol 50 No 4
  • 20/02/2009

A mutual security pact

Tales of corruption deepen and the coalition partners seem to be protecting each other from the fallout

  • Vol 50 No 4
  • 20/02/2009

The briefcase tycoon is back

The Triton saga highlights the resurfacing of the Daniel arap Moi-era briefcase tycoon - young, brash and politically protected. Kenyan politicians prefer to work with Asian-origin businessmen: the ideal combination is a small-time player with good fi...

  • Vol 50 No 3
  • 06/02/2009

Serious fraud hunt

Britain's Serious Fraud Office announced on 4 February that it is closing its 'investigation into contracts secured with the Kenyan government by Anglo-Leasing finance and related business'. This coincides with the publication in London of 'It's our tu...

  • Vol 49 No 25
  • 12/12/2008

More unga than chungwa

A year after the flawed elections, much of the fire has gone out of the once radical opposition Orange Democratic Movement. Odinga, the firebrand ODM leader, held a meeting for his constituents in Nairobi’s Kibera’s slum to thank them for voting for him. ...

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