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Kenya Country Report
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Found 182 articles.
- Vol 49 No 5
- 29/02/2008
An outbreak of cordiality
In the aftermath of the signing of the power-sharing agreement on 28 February, Raila Odinga turned to his adversary, addressing him as 'My countryman, President Mwai Kibaki'. Ever the politician, 63-year-old Odinga always publicly refers to 76-year-old...
- Vol 49 No 4
- 15/02/2008
The safari talks
Signs of progress, however elusive, are boosting hopes for a deal but the militias are rearming - just in case
- Vol 49 No 4
- 15/02/2008
Message from the wazungu
Outsiders have been belatedly increasing pressure on Kenya's feuding politicians as former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan moved the negotiating teams to the secluded Kilaguni Safari Lodge in the Tsavo West National Park. The cacophony of ...
- Vol 49 No 3
- 01/02/2008
The soldiers wait in the wings
After another spate of murderous attacks and high level political obstruction, many see military intervention as a desperate remedy
- Vol 49 No 3
- 01/02/2008
The spurned advisor at State House
Confidence at State House was knocked by their party’s appalling parliamentary results in the 27 December elections and the furore over the disputed presidential vote. For several days, President Mwai Kibaki’s officials seemed chronically divided over pol...
- Vol 49 No 3
- 01/02/2008
Military options
At the height of this week’s violence in the Rift Valley, senior Kenyan politicians on both sides of the divide began discussing the possibility of a military intervention. Yet it would signify very different things for each side. For President Emilio Mwa...
- Vol 49 No 2
- 16/01/2008
Handshakes at dusk
Much hard work lies ahead if the awkward meeting between Odinga is to lead to a resolution of the worsening crisis
- Vol 49 No 2
- 16/01/2008
The heart of the matter
Pastor Robert Kipchoge Birgen of the African Inland Church in Chepsiria is an Oskar Schindler of the North Rift, a man who saved the lives of people hunted because of their ethnicity, which was not his. On the evening of 31 December, a day after the Elect...
- Vol 49 No 1
- 11/01/2008
Kenya moves closer to the edge
Both sides in Kenya’s election stand-off are looking into the abyss and a few politicians are preparing to jump. Without serious efforts now to resolve the impasse between Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity and Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement...
- Vol 48 No 25
- 14/12/2007
Closer and closer
In this watershed election, a new generation of politicians is challenging an establishment that dates back to the Independence years
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