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Kenya
Population: 39.7 mn.
GDP: 32.0 bn.
Debt: 5.7 bn.
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  • Vol 50 No 16
  •  7th August 2009

The hard road to truth, justice and reconciliation

President Mwai Kibaki's 23 July appointment of Bethuel Kiplagat to chair Kenya's newly created Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission is problematic. Some suspect the government will use the TJRC to exonerate any senior politician convicted of elect...

  • Vol 50 No 16
  •  7th August 2009

A 'government of national impunity'

The fractious coalition government of President Mwai Kibaki and Premier Raila Odinga may have finally agreed on something: to let impunity reign. Kenyans speak of the transition from a 'government of national unity' to a 'government of national impunity'.

  • Vol 50 No 15
  •  24th July 2009

Kofi Annan puts politicians on the spot over poll violence

Options narrow after the International Criminal Court receives the list of suspects

  • Vol 50 No 15
  •  24th July 2009

Kenyan politicians face new deadline

Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary General, made his announcement about handing over the envelope containing the list of the accused to the International Criminal Court just six days after meeting a Kenyan government delegation in Geneva, Swi...

  • Vol 50 No 15
  •  24th July 2009

The CIPEV's recommendations

Recommendations from the Waki Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV), Part V, Chapter 13.

  • Vol 50 No 13
  •  26th June 2009

Good news for some

Three main groups should do well out of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta's maiden budget: Kenya's 210 elected members of parliament and its millionaires and commercial bankers. Kenyatta, who is also Minister of Finance, proposes to use the 210 constit...

  • Vol 50 No 12
  •  12th June 2009

Uhuru's accounting crisis

A series of mathematical blunders complicates preparations for the budget and suggests a government cover-up

  • Vol 50 No 9
  •  1st May 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
  •  3rd April 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
  •  3rd April 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 Nat...

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