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Kenya
Population: 39.7 mn.
GDP: 32.0 bn.
Debt: 5.7 bn.
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  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

In office, but not in power

Raila Odinga’s office is not running smoothly: his small staff are at odds and are holding up the reforms

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

An African 'war on terror'

The murder of an activist and the police reaction to a criminal conspiracy reveal another dark side of Kenyan politics

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

Pushing Wako

Kenya’s long-serving Attorney General, Amos Shitswila Wako, has been targeted for special censure by United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Philip Alston, who has been investigating the extra-judicial killing ...

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

A mutual security pact

Tales of corruption deepen and the coalition partners seem to be protecting each other from the fallout

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

The briefcase tycoon is back

The Triton saga highlights the resurfacing of the Daniel arap Moi-era briefcase tycoon - young, brash and politically protected. Kenyan politicians prefer to work with Asian-origin businessmen: the ideal combination is a small-time player with good financ...

  • Vol 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Serious fraud hunt

Britain's Serious Fraud Office announced on 4 February that it is closing its 'investigation into contracts secured with the Kenyan government by Anglo-Leasing finance and related business'. This coincides with the publication in London of 'It's our turn ...

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

More unga than chungwa

A year after the flawed elections, much of the fire has gone out of the once radical opposition Orange Democratic Movement. Odinga, the firebrand ODM leader, held a meeting for his constituents in Nairobi’s Kibera’s slum to thank them for voting for him. ...

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

Who fixed the election and how

The first of the two commissions on Kenya’s election crisis – both advocated by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and his group of eminent persons – was charged with investigating the conduct of the elections at all stages. Retired South ...

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

Hunting the killers

The Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence was chaired by Kenya’s Justice Phillip Waki and included Gavin A. McFadyen, former Assistant Commissioner for Operations in the New Zealand Police, and Pascal Kambale, a Congolese human rights speciali...

  • Vol 49 No 22
  •  31st October 2008

Calling politicians to account

The Waki report on post-election violence names names, tells tales and could help clear up the nation's politics

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