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Kenya Country Report
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Found 199 articles.
- 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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