Vol 59 No 12 | KENYA Jobs for Raila's boys 15th June 2018 The bipartisan committee appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga to look into 'building bridges' to achieve national unity has not reported, but a ...
Vol 59 No 8 | KENYA Believe the handshake 20th April 2018 President Uhuru Kenyatta was affable good humour personified on 17 April when he nipped across London's Mayfair from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to the Chatham Hou...
Vol 59 No 6 | KENYA Raila beats rivals to a new deal 23rd March 2018 The opposition is in disarray after its erstwhile leader signs a surprise agreement with President Kenyatta It was the most ambiguous of handshakes, despite the claims that President Uhuru Kenyatta and the opposition leader Raila Odinga's meeting on 9 March – after months of acrimo... READ FOR FREE
Vol 59 No 5 | KENYA Down the autocrat's alley 9th March 2018 The government claims its political crackdown will boost growth. It's more likely to do the opposite There has been a sea change in President Uhuru Kenyatta's political style. In a television interview last September, David Wakairu Murathe, the Jubilee Party Deputy Chairman and a ...
Vol 59 No 3 | KENYA Diplomats and journalists drawn into election row 2nd February 2018 The government has banned reporting of Raila's 'inauguration' and picked a fight with the EU election observers' mission as the political impasse worsens The government took three of Kenya's main television stations off the air rather than allow them to broadcast opposition leader Raila Odinga's self-styled inauguration as the 'peop...
Vol 59 No 1 | KENYA Political rift will linger 12th January 2018 The unrest and instability of the prolonged electoral crisis will continue to dominate politics as Kenyatta looks to his legacy The political tug-of-war between the governing Jubilee Party of Kenya and the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) which dominated 2017 is expected to continue through the res...
Vol 58 No 25 | KENYA Allowance alliance 15th December 2017 Members of parliament of the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) have boycotted the National Assembly since August's controversial elections, bringing legislative business to...
Vol 58 No 23 | KENYA Unpacking Raila's resistance 17th November 2017 As the country simmers after its election re-run, churchmen take to diplomacy – and politicians to the street and social media In an eloquent address to a full auditorium at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC on the morning of 9 November, Raila Odinga, leader of Ken...
Vol 58 No 23 | KENYA Counting on the counties 17th November 2017 Hopes are high that however dangerous national politics may be, regional government will reduce ethnic and economic tension Devolving power to Kenya's 47 counties was one of the main provisions of the 2010 constitution drafted in response to the post-election violence in 2007-08. Moderate government and...
Vol 58 No 23 | KENYATANZANIA Making policy on the hoof 17th November 2017 President John Magufuli has picked an unexpected new fight on the Kenyan border. Over 1,100 cattle seized from Maasai herders in Tanzania's Kilimanjaro and Mara regions in late Oct...
