Vol 50 No 12 | KENYA Uhuru's accounting crisis 12th June 2009 A series of mathematical blunders complicates preparations for the budget and suggests a government cover-up A political and economic storm battered Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta before his maiden budget speech on 11 June, as the effects of last year’s political crisis feed into...
Vol 50 No 9 | KENYA Who is in charge here? 1st May 2009 The coalition government looks irreparably split but Speaker Kenneth Marende has offered a temporary fix Kenya's coalition squabbles have spilled over into Parliament (AC Vol 50 No 9). The latest, and worst, row between the coalition partners, President Mwai Kibaki's Party of...
Vol 50 No 7 | KENYA A reform deadline for the rivals 3rd April 2009 A year after the power-sharing accord, political change is faltering and the police are shooting human rights activists Politicians gathering in Nairobi and Geneva this week candidly admit that time is fast running out for the Grand Coalition to implement its promised reforms, without which Kenya...
Vol 50 No 7 | KENYA Inside the sealed envelope 3rd April 2009 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...
Vol 50 No 7 | KENYA In office, but not in power 3rd April 2009 Raila Odinga’s office is not running smoothly: his small staff are at odds and are holding up the reforms The 14th Floor of the Treasury Building that Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his modest staff occupy has been the office of Kenya's finance minister since the 1980s...
Vol 50 No 6 | KENYA An African 'war on terror' 20th March 2009 The murder of an activist and the police reaction to a criminal conspiracy reveal another dark side of Kenyan politics Oscar King'ara was murdered a day after he had pointed to a cabinet minister and the Kenyan police as being directly responsible for a two-year wave of extrajudicial...
Vol 50 No 5 | KENYA Pushing Wako 6th March 2009 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...
Vol 50 No 4 | KENYA A mutual security pact 20th February 2009 Tales of corruption deepen and the coalition partners seem to be protecting each other from the fallout The disgraced former Finance Minister, Amos Kimunya, is back in the cabinet, reinstated by President Mwai Kibaki in mid-January during a mini-reshuffle. His return went almost unnoticed amid...
Vol 50 No 4 | KENYA The briefcase tycoon is back 20th February 2009 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...
Vol 50 No 3 | KENYABRITAIN Serious fraud hunt 6th February 2009 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...