Vol 59 No 15 | KENYA A deluge of injustice 27th July 2018 A new investigation says those responsible for the Solai dam disaster could escape prosecution Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Mohamed Haj has charged the manager and owner of the Nakuru County farm on which the Milmet Solai dam collapsed, causing dozens...
Vol 59 No 14 | KENYA Hanging on a handshake 13th July 2018 The deal between Kenyatta and Odinga has re-aligned old rivalries. Nairobi insiders puzzle over who the winners and losers are Every politician in Nairobi has a favourite theory about the causes and consequences of the rapprochement between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga on 9 March...
Vol 59 No 13 | KENYA Full of sound and fury… 29th June 2018 Warm words from President Kenyatta about tackling corruption hold little promise of transforming an endemic culture of rot Grand corruption throughout society is being exposed on a scale Kenyans have never seen before – all, apparently, with the full support of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Such is...
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 pattern...
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 House...
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... 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 'people's president'...
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 rest of...
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 a halt. But when the...