Vol 50 No 16 | KENYA A 'government of national impunity' 7th August 2009 The fractious coalition government of President Mwai Kibaki and Premier Raila Odinga may have finally agreed on something: to let impunity reign. Kenyans speak of the transition from...
Vol 50 No 15 | KENYA Kofi Annan puts politicians on the spot over poll violence 24th July 2009 Options narrow after the International Criminal Court receives the list of suspects The Kenyan government has until the end of September to set up an independent special tribunal on the post-election violence of December 2007. On 9 July, former United...
Vol 50 No 15 | KENYA Kenyan politicians face new deadline 24th July 2009 Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary General, made his announcement about handing over the envelope containing the list of the accused to the International Criminal Court just...
Vol 50 No 15 | KENYA The CIPEV's recommendations 24th July 2009 Recommendations from the Waki Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV), Part V, Chapter 13.
Vol 50 No 13 | KENYA Good news for some 26th June 2009 Three main groups should do well out of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta's maiden budget: Kenya's 210 elected members of parliament and its millionaires and commercial bankers. Kenyatta,...
Vol 50 No 12 | KENYA Uhuru's accounting crisis 12th June 2009 A series of mathematical blunders complicates preparations for the budget and suggests a government cover-up A political and economic storm battered Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta before his maiden budget speech on 11 June, as the effects of last year’s political crisis feed into...
Vol 50 No 9 | KENYA Who is in charge here? 1st May 2009 The coalition government looks irreparably split but Speaker Kenneth Marende has offered a temporary fix Kenya's coalition squabbles have spilled over into Parliament (AC Vol 50 No 9). The latest, and worst, row between the coalition partners, President Mwai Kibaki's Party of...
Vol 50 No 7 | KENYA A reform deadline for the rivals 3rd April 2009 A year after the power-sharing accord, political change is faltering and the police are shooting human rights activists Politicians gathering in Nairobi and Geneva this week candidly admit that time is fast running out for the Grand Coalition to implement its promised reforms, without which Kenya...
Vol 50 No 7 | KENYA Inside the sealed envelope 3rd April 2009 A sealed envelope with the names of ten people judged by Justice Philip Waki's Commission to be the most important financiers and organisers of last year's post-election violence...
Vol 50 No 7 | KENYA In office, but not in power 3rd April 2009 Raila Odinga’s office is not running smoothly: his small staff are at odds and are holding up the reforms The 14th Floor of the Treasury Building that Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his modest staff occupy has been the office of Kenya's finance minister since the 1980s...