Vol 51 No 13 | KENYA The battle for the basic law 25th June 2010 Campaigning for next month’s constitutional referendum is a mixture of ideology, religion and personal ambition – and now the thugs have moved in The main open disagreements in the lead up to Kenya’s constitutional referendum on 4 August are about abortion, Muslim kadhi courts and land. The battle between the green Yeses and...
Vol 51 No 13 | KENYA Yes, No and in between 25th June 2010 A few weeks ago, Prime Minister Raila Odinga declared that securing a new constitution was a government project, which therefore deserved state funding while the campaign against t...
Vol 51 No 13 | KENYA Bombing the campaign 25th June 2010 Police and politicians are struggling to work out who hoped to gain from the grenade attack which killed six people at an evangelical Christian rally in Uhuru Park on 13 June. Most...
Vol 51 No 12 | KENYA The rise of the watermelons 11th June 2010 The constitutional referendum is splitting parties, creating bizarre alliances and foreshadowing the 2012 elections
Vol 51 No 10 | KENYA Witnesses under threat 14th May 2010 The 8-13 May visit of International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to Kenya allowed President Mwai Kibaki’s government to maintain the pretence that it is cooperating...
Vol 51 No 9 | KENYA Worrying the witnesses 30th April 2010 The people behind the post-election political violence are threatening witnesses and trying to derail the international investigation Claims that a senior official in the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has been handing over information to politicians about witnesses to the 2007 post-election vi...
Vol 51 No 9 | KENYA Bye bye Betty 30th April 2010 Betty Murungi’s resignation from the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission on 19 April may trigger its disbanding. Two weeks earlier, Murungi had withdrawn from her post as ...
Vol 51 No 8 | KENYAGERMANY German exile 16th April 2010 News that Oku Kaunya, a former deputy Commandant in the Administration Police, has gone into exile in Germany will concentrate the minds of the investigators from the International...
Vol 51 No 7 | KENYA A blow against impunity 2nd April 2010 The International Criminal Court is to probe election violence and may put some leading politicians and business people on trial for crimes against humanity The 31 March decision by the judges of the International Criminal Court to approve an investigation into the 2007 election violence follows two years of obfuscation and ambivalence...
Vol 51 No 7 | KENYA A dangerous compromise 2nd April 2010 The politicians' failure to agree on serious reform of the government risks a repeat of the 2007 election crisis The 20-year quest for a new constitution looks set to end in a dangerous compromise. At the end of March, when Parliament debated the Harmonised Draft Constitution, it was clear th...
