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Kenya
Population: 39.7 mn.
GDP: 32.0 bn.
Debt: 5.7 bn.
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New, independent judges may block some candidates for the presidential election when the ICC confirms the charges against the Ocampo Six. The Somalia incursion could fizzle out or turn into a quagmire but Al Shabaab-inspired terrorism will increase regardless. 

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  • Vol 49 No 22
  •  31st October 2008

The Waki report

Justice Philip Waki produces a devastating critique of Kenya's political class and business elite

  • Vol 49 No 22
  •  31st October 2008

Pirates and tanks

The news that the arms onboard the hijacked MV Faina were destined for the Government of Southern Sudan – via Kenyan end-user certificates and covert transport – has damaged Nairobi-Khartoum relations (AC Vol 49 No 20) and may lead to the cancellation of...

  • Vol 49 No 20
  •  3rd October 2008

Another ethnic scramble

A well-intentioned reform threatens the country's regional parties and alliances

  • Vol 49 No 20
  •  3rd October 2008

Arms and the boys

Somalia's pirates are busy guarding the 33 Ukrainian tanks and other equipment captured on the MV Faina on 25 September. United States' naval vessels surround the ship and the Russian navy is authorised by Somali authorities to use force to liberate the ...

  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 2008

The evidence unfolds

Public inquiries into Kenya's electoral troubles offer a safety valve, not a solution

  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 2008

Commissions galore

Commissions of inquiry are the Houdini act of the Kenyan state, getting the government out of tight spots by a public display of evidence, later shelved and producing little more than rumour and speculation.

  • Vol 49 No 17
  •  22nd August 2008

How the fighting spread

A report shows how politicians, administrators and churchmen fostered the post-election slaughter and calls for their prosecution

  • Vol 49 No 17
  •  22nd August 2008

The names and the shame

The August report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights lists many groups and individuals involved in the post-election violence but it is far from exhaustive.

  • Vol 49 No 16
  •  1st August 2008

Coalition under strain

There are tremors within the power-sharing grand coalition that ended the post-election mayhem

  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 2008

A hotel, a minister and a scandal

The newspapers and the ODM are having fun but what really happened?

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