Kenya

'The one certainty is that this won't last', insist Nairobi's political veterans. Few believe the governing National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) can survive much past the middle of the...

This week, another former senior civil servant, Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary Wilfred Koinange, accused ex-President Daniel arap Moi of ordering an illegal transfer of US$76 million of state...

On the night of 11 December, while President Mwai Kibaki was preparing to celebrate 40 years of Kenya's Independence, his Minister for Public Works, Raila Amolo Odinga, was...

Coalition ministers have unhindered access to President Mwai Kibaki and latitude to make decisions. Ex-President Daniel arap Moi would sometimes reverse ministerial decisions via national radio and (with...

'Why hire a lawyer when you can buy a judge?' runs a well-worn Kenyan joke. It's a joke that reformers in President Mwai Kibaki's government want to make...

The killing of university don Crispin Odhiambo Mbai on 14 September has thrown President Mwai Kibaki's government into crisis. Kibaki's nine-month honeymoon is over as Mbai joins the...

At the apex of President Mwai Kibaki's coalition government, a Kikuyu cabal known as 'the Mount Kenya mafia' is tightening its grip. The group includes several former firebrands...

Since last December, when voters decisively rejected 39 years of rule by the Kenya African National Union, the victorious National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC) has begun to do...

Divisions in the governing coalition have grown sharper during the constitutional review conference, which opened on 30 April in the Bomas of Kenya park and promises to continue...

Two interlinked questions gnaw at the credibility of President Mwai Kibaki's government: will the presidency exert leadership in economic and political reform and will the ruling coalition stay...