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...
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,...
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...
Vol 58 No 22 | KENYA A question of legitimacy 30th October 2017 President Uhuru Kenyatta starts his second term facing street protests, legal challenges to his election, and deep divisions in the electoral commission Neither side in the over-heated election row looks ready to talk, let alone negotiate. Taking a shot at his opponents for representing the 'politics of darkness' and accusing... READ FOR FREE
Vol 58 No 22 | KENYA What the landslide buried 3rd November 2017 Nobody got what they wanted from the election re-run. Kenyatta got a weaker mandate and the opposition's tactics misfired Surely no president can look on a 98% majority with as much dismay as President Uhuru Kenyatta. The boycott of the 26 October poll by his main rival,...
Vol 58 No 21 | KENYA A commission under siege 20th October 2017 The sudden resignation of an electoral commissioner raises further doubts about the schedule for the rerun election The sudden resignation of Roselyn Akombe, one of the eight commissioners on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), has cast fresh uncertainty over the planned Presidential re-run...
Vol 58 No 21 | KENYA Crisis? What crisis? 16th October 2017 Our correspondents answer the most critical questions about the country's increasingly heated political contest Is there a political crisis in Kenya? Would the involvement of foreign mediators help solve it?On this issue there is stark disagreement between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition... READ FOR FREE