Kenya

Kenya

Population: 42.1 mn.
GDP: 41.8 bn.
Debt: 8.4 bn.
Overview:

Prime Minister Raila Odinga is the favourite to win the presidency in the March elections but he will struggle to implement his ambitious reforms. If his International Criminal Court-indicted rivals Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto were to win, Kenya would plunge into crisis. More security threats loom in the Coast and North-East

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  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Bellingham brings warrants

Britain’s Africa Minister Henry Bellingham was in Nairobi ‘promoting British interests’, officials said. However, few expected that to include delivering extradition warrants for two prominent Kenyans for fraud and money-laundering.

  • Vol 52 No 9
  •  29th April 2011

Politics of prices

Civic activists and trades unionists are mobilising in Nairobi and Mombasa against skyrocketing food and fuel prices. The Central Organisation for Trades Unions demands a 60% increase in the minimum wage and threatens a national strike. Since January...

  • Vol 52 No 8
  •  15th April 2011

Six in the dock

Suspects played the ethnic card during mass rallies at home before flying to the Netherlands to appear in court

  • Vol 52 No 8
  •  15th April 2011

Through the Wikihole

The publication by WikiLeaks of the US Nairobi Embassy’s cables affords a unique and stark view of the country’s ruling figures

  • Vol 52 No 6
  •  18th March 2011

On to the trial

Despite a dissident judge and government lobbying, the ICC is set to try six politicians accused of mass murder and has issued summonses

  • Vol 52 No 4
  •  18th February 2011

First pick your judge

President Kibaki is undermining efforts to reform the judiciary as he protects his allies from prosecution

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

ICC has Kenyan politicians on the run

The Kenyan Parliament has been tying itself in constitutional knots after passing a motion – which risks being in conflict with the new constitution – to repeal the International Criminal Act. The motion by Isaac Ruto, a member of parliament from the Oran...

  • Vol 51 No 25
  •  17th December 2010

Ocampo names six suspects

President Mwai Kibaki’s government is in turmoil following the naming of some of its ministers as responsible for the post-election violence in 2008

  • Vol 51 No 25
  •  17th December 2010

Don’t be vague, let’s go to the Hague

A day after Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo’s 15 December naming of the six people wanted by the International Criminal Court, Kenya’s Parliament was debating a private member’s bill. It was brought by William Ruto’s ally, Isaac Ruto (no relation), and prop...

  • Vol 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

Ruto takes on the courts

Sacked from the cabinet and accused of involvement in the 2007 election violence, William Ruto comes out fighting

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