Vol 62 No 2 | KENYA The race for Nairobi 21st January 2021 The BBI alliance is manoeuvring its ally into the Nairobi governorship because it fears losing another by-election The political differences between Deputy President William Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta are playing themselves out in the tussle to fill the position of the governor of Nairobi.
Vol 62 No 1 | KENYA Handshake to face poll test 7th January 2021 The President’s coalition with his former adversary will be put to the electorate in 2021 against a backdrop of economic pain After a catastrophic decline in economic performance due to Covid-19 in 2020, aggravated by corruption and wrong-headed fiscal and public debt policies, 2021 promises to be particularly painful...
Vol 57 No 3 | KENYA Off with his ed 5th February 2016 The Daily Nation newspaper seems to have some doubts about why it sacked its Special Projects Editor, Denis Galava, in January, several weeks after suspending him over an...
Vol 65 No 22 | KENYA Ruto’s impeachment of his Deputy starts to backfire 28th October 2024 Pushing out Gachagua could cost the President votes and doesn’t alleviate the deepening financial woes For all the ‘sturm und drang’ over the impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua it is still unclear why he and President William Samoei Ruto fell out.
Vol 49 No 11 | KENYAANALYSIS Grand coalition - its divisions and prospects 23rd May 2008 The grand coalition government that emerged from a power-sharing agreement has largely succeeded in halting ethnic violence The power-sharing deal seems deliberately ambiguous, based on the theory that Mwai Kibaki (with his Party of National Unity, PNU) would be President and Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
