Vol 46 No 25 | KENYA Mwai's muddle 16th December 2005 President Kibaki's authority hangs by a thread after a botched government reshuffle Facing total disaster after a reshuffle fiasco last week in which a third of the new ministers turned down their appointments, President Mwai Kibaki has managed to entice...
Vol 46 No 24 | KENYA Smashing the fruit bowl 2nd December 2005 The people's rejection of the president's draft constitution has killed the Rainbow coalition To make sense of his defeat in the constitutional referendum on 21 November, President Mwai Kibaki must choose between crushing his opponents or coopting them. The referendum campaign...
Vol 46 No 24 | KENYA Oranges up, bananas down 2nd December 2005 The referendum has relaunched or unmade several political careers: Raila Odinga: The referendum brought his rivalry with President Mwai Kibaki to a head. Their 2002 alliance to oust...
Vol 46 No 23 | KENYA Corruption poll 18th November 2005 The government now looks likely to lose the 21 November constitutional referendum, barring a last-minute swing of voter sentiment. Some 42 per cent of Kenyans polled by the...
Vol 46 No 21 | KENYA A proxy election 21st October 2005 Orange Revolutionarie smell victory over Banana Republicans in the constitution campaign National elections are not due until December 2007 but Kenya is the middle of a bizarre election contest between two factions of the same cabinet. On paper, the...
Vol 46 No 18 | KENYA Banana-skin vote 9th September 2005 There's many a slip ahead, in the referendum and its constitutional consequences Kenyan voters will be asked to vote 'Yes' (a banana symbol) or 'No' (an orange) on 21 November, in a referendum on ratification of the proposed new constitution....
Vol 46 No 18 | KENYA Githongo picks up the glove 9th September 2005 Exiled anti-corruption czar John Githongo is to return to Kenya next month to hand a detailed dossier on his investigations into parliament's Public Accounts Committee. This follows a...
Vol 46 No 16 | KENYA Dancing partners 5th August 2005 President Kibaki praises the dissident Odinga and is embarrassed by his friend Murungaru The bizarre pas de deux between President Mwai Kibaki and cabinet dissident Raila Odinga raises doubts as to whether the President can win the national referendum on the...
Vol 46 No 14 | KENYA Making up 8th July 2005 The governing Rainbow Coalition looks united for a change. Will it last? After months of chaos and corruption charges, events are finally moving President Mwai Kibaki's way (AC Vol 46 Nos 10 and 13). The economy is growing faster, with...
Vol 46 No 13 | KENYA More ships ahoy! 24th June 2005 A week after being left off the Group of Eight finance ministers' list of African states eligible for debt relief on 11 June, President Mwai Kibaki's government has...
Vol 46 No 10 | KENYA Ship ahoy! 13th May 2005 A legal and political row is brewing over an expensive new warship Assurances to the Treasury by the Chief of General Staff, General Joe Kibwana, about a 4.1 billion Kenya Shilling (US$53.5 million) deal to buy a new patrol boat...
Vol 46 No 9 | KENYA Biwott is back again 29th April 2005 Three anti-corruption campaigners have left the scene as Total Man returns The drive against corruption has run out of steam. President Mwai Kibaki's National Rainbow Coalition was elected in January 2003 on a straightforward anti-corruption platform (AC Vol 46...
Vol 46 No 4 | KENYA Waterborne corruption 18th February 2005 Pressure mounts on President Mwai Kibaki to act against corruption after his anti-graft czar, John Githongo, resigned on 7 February. Opposition MPs and local campaigners are looking at...
Vol 46 No 3 | KENYA Rebellion under the rainbow 4th February 2005 Infighting in the ruling coalition over election rules and constitutional reform further undermines President Kibaki President Mwai Kibaki faces a new schism in the ranks of the unstable National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) over his ultimatum that all its parties must hold elections by...
Vol 46 No 3 | KENYA The new flagbearers 4th February 2005 As the governing National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) quarrels over internal elections, Kenya's alliance system is becoming increasingly fluid and a new set of leaders is jockeying for position...