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 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

Grand coalition - its divisions and prospects

The grand coalition government that emerged from a power-sharing agreement has largely succeeded in halting ethnic violence

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

Judge Kriegler looks into the elections

There is little prospect that the Independent Review Commission, chaired by South African Judge Johann Kriegler, will get to the bottom of the election skulduggery that triggered mass violence last December.

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

Money battles

This week, Finance Minister Amos Kimunya has downplayed talk of a looming budget crisis and slumping growth rates. His determined optimism follows a statement by National Development Minister Wycliffe Oparanya that the government faced an estimated bu...

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

In the fog of peace

A new, overstuffed government brings back familiar faces but offers few hopes of reconstruction

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

Gluttons for punishment

The new ministerial team is Kenya’s most expensive ever: 42 ministers and 52 assistant ministers out of 222 members of parliament – 42% of all MPs. President Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity had wanted a total of 44 ministers, including the 17 loyali...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

Cabinet crisis

The suspension on 8 April of negotiations over cabinet portfolios risks taking the country back to the turmoil of January and February. Just after Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement announced that it was pulling out of the talks, violence broke ...

  • Vol 49 No 6
  • 14/03/2008

Second honeymoon for the money men

Following the political deal this month, Kenyans are hoping for another deal to restart the economy. Conservative estimates put the cost of the post-election crisis at around US$1.5 billion and the loss of more than 1,000 lives. Yet the effects of more th...

  • Vol 49 No 6
  • 14/03/2008

Trans-Century and transcendental

Formed a decade ago, Trans-Century Limited has grown over the past five years to become the biggest private equity firm in East Africa, with a multimillion dollar portfolio. It has interests in cabling, information technology, power, rail transport, ha...

  • Vol 49 No 6
  • 14/03/2008

Life after a game of golf

President Mwai Kibaki and putative Prime Minister Raila Odinga spent the day together at the Karen Open, Nairobi's most prestigious golf tournament on 10 March. Spectacularly out of place on the golf course in ties and suits, the two politicians smile...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

The Harambee House deal

A compromise deal has pulled the rival parties back from the brink but much detail still has to be resolved

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