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 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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