Kenya

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...

Foreign Minister Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka's swing through Washington and London last week reinforced the aid-for-security cooperation trade-off dominating Kenyan policy. President Mwai Kibaki's government will get military training...

Optimists have suggested that Kenya's wheelchair-bound President Mwai Kibaki is a metaphor for the national condition: physically constrained but spiritually indomitable or in Kenya's new political parlance, 'unbwogable'....

The businesslike buzz of President Mwai Kibaki's State House is a world apart from his predecessor Daniel arap Moi's more gregarious style. Kibaki's team is known as the...