Vol 47 No 25 | KENYA Crossed lines 15th December 2006 Britain's Vodafone PLC and the Kenyan government face awkward questions about the establishment of Kenya's largest mobile phone company, Safaricom, following the discovery that a hitherto unknown company...
Vol 47 No 24 | KENYA Comeback couples 1st December 2006 Former President Daniel arap Moi's endorsement of Nicholas Biwott on 25 November as KANU Chairman instead of Uhuru Kenyatta was designed to scupper hopes for a broad-based opposition...
Vol 47 No 23 | KENYASOMALIA Turki's landing 17th November 2006 Sheikh Hassan Abdullah Hamid Turki, leading radical in Somalia's Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC) and high on the United States' terrorist list, is reported to have been wounded...
Vol 47 No 21 | KENYA The anti-corruption collapse 20th October 2006 The failure of Justice Ringera's investigations reinforces the growing criminalisation of the state Attorney General Amos Wako's dismissal of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission's (KACC) investigation into five state contracts will effectively block the cases until after next year's national elections. It...
Vol 47 No 21 | KENYA Brothers in Armenia 20th October 2006 The report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the activities of the so-called Armenian brothers - Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargasyan - uncovers a pattern of fraud...
Vol 47 No 17 | KENYAEAST AFRICA A political resurrection 25th August 2006 A slew of by-election victories and a vigourous political roadshow have boosted President Kibaki's chances of success next year Suddenly President Mwai Kibaki's political fortunes are looking up again, and the idea of him running for re-election next year looks less ludicrous. Back in January his government...
Vol 47 No 17 | KENYA Presidential hopefuls take to the road 25th August 2006 Kenyan politics is based on ethnic and regional support. No party can win outright, yet most presidential hopefuls dislike the notion of coalitions. With...
Vol 47 No 13 | KENYA The Armenian connection 23rd June 2006 Guns, police, parties - mysterious businessmen claim links with powerful politicians Mary Wambui, President Mwai Kibaki's second wife, has been repeatedly embarrassed by reports of her links to two men with Armenian names, after a security breach at Jomo...
Vol 47 No 12 | KENYA The cocaine conspiracy 9th June 2006 The Kibaki government's bizarre handling of a multimillion dollar drug smuggling case is letting the real villains walk free On 19 June, Justice Aggrey Muchelule is to hand down a verdict in the case of two Italians and five Kenyans charged with smuggling 1.2 tonnes of cocaine...
Vol 47 No 11 | KENYA Slapping the messenger 26th May 2006 They may descend into farce but attacks on the media are no laughing matter Raids, law suits and board-room reshuffles are putting the heat on Kenya's journalists. The governing coalition is accused of corruption and its parties are squabbling but until recently,...