Optimists have suggested that Kenya's wheelchair-bound President Mwai Kibaki is a metaphor for the national condition: physically constrained but spiritually indomitable or in Kenya's new political parlance 'unbwogable'...
The businesslike buzz of President Mwai Kibaki's State House is a world apart from his predecessor Daniel arap Moi's more gregarious style...
Firstly Moi couldn't move into offices at the Kenya International Conference Centre as planned because his Kenya African National Union is in dispute with President Mwai Kibaki about KICC's ownership...
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- EAST AFRICA
A grateful President Mwai Kibaki (tired and wheelchair-bound after a car accident during the campaign) told Kenyans to take a holiday on the first and second of January...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Civil Service boss Sally Kosgey was instructed to organise Mwai Kibaki's presidential inauguration for 9 o'clock on Monday morning - partly it seems to prevent the barons from finding another means to block Kibaki...
Opinion polls historical trends and anecdotal reports all put Mwai Kibaki ahead with about 45-50 per cent of the national vote...
As he heads into the sunset President Daniel arap Moi has to face the fact that his handpicked successor Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (AC Vol 43 No 15) may lose the forthcoming election to Mwai Kibaki of the new National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC AC Vol 43 No 18)...
KANU's problems are more serious since Rainbow leaders Saitoti Energy Minister Raila Odinga and Tourism Minister Kalonzo Musyoka attended a rally last week beside the formal opposition National Alliance of Kenya (NAK) led by Mwai Kibaki Michael Kijana Wamalwa and Charity Ngilu and the People's Alliance under Simeon Nyachae...
The Kikuyu multi-millionaire Njenga Karume has defected to Uhuru Kenyatta (Kikuyu) from the opposition Democratic Party (DP) which is led by his old friend another Kikuyu Mwai Kibaki (AC Vol 43 No 15)...
If Uhuru wins the KANU nomination the DP's Kikuyu leader Mwai Kibaki will be pushed to hand over the Alliance nomination to a non-Kikuyu and the Kikuyu vote dominant in Nairobi and Central Provinces will be split between KANU and the opposition...