After another spate of murderous attacks and high level political obstruction, many see military intervention as a desperate remedy
Amid the latest round of killing in the Rift Valley, Rwanda’s President
Paul Kagame suggested that intervention by Kenya’s military may be the only solution left: ‘I know it’s not fashionable or right for the armies to get involved in such a political situation,’ he told Reuters news agency, ‘but in a situation where institutions have lost control, I wouldn’t mind such a solution.’ That may not win General Kagame an invitation to tea with President
Mwai Kibaki but it is a view echoed by many despairing Kenyans and foreign diplomats. Some authoritatively quote dates for the interventions, even the names and ranks of the officers involved. Looking at the options in Kenya, there are huge forebodings.
Confidence at State House was knocked by their party’s appalling parliamentary results in the 27 December elections and the furore over the disputed presidential vote. For several days,...
At the height of this week’s violence in the Rift Valley, senior Kenyan politicians on both sides of the divide began discussing the possibility of a military intervention....