Kenya

Kenya, with neither a governing coalition nor an effective opposition, has become a democratic no-party state. The opposition alliance of convenience, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), is fighting...

Much of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) strife is caused by money wars. The Secretariat was run on voluntary contributions from ODM members of parliament, whose remittances dried...

Until this month, Raila Amolo Odinga's presidential plans were progressing well. As a workaholic activist, Odinga believed he had the public profile and national base to emerge as...

More than most countries, Kenya's politics is about winning over ethnic constituencies and building powerful coalitions. Recently, Kenyans have heard warnings about the dangers of ethnic violence ahead...

Kenya's radically differing political styles were on show this week as respective presidential campaigns were launched. The opposition Orange Democratic Movement held an exuberant end-of-year rally on 9...

Britain's Vodafone PLC and the Kenyan government face awkward questions about the establishment of Kenya's largest mobile phone company, Safaricom, following the discovery that a hitherto unknown company...

Former President Daniel arap Moi's endorsement of Nicholas Biwott on 25 November as KANU Chairman instead of Uhuru Kenyatta was designed to scupper hopes for a broad-based opposition...

Sheikh Hassan Abdullah Hamid Turki, leading radical in Somalia's Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC) and high on the United States' terrorist list, is reported to have been wounded...

Attorney General Amos Wako's dismissal of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission's (KACC) investigation into five state contracts will effectively block the cases until after next year's national elections. It...

The report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the activities of the so-called Armenian brothers - Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargasyan - uncovers a pattern of fraud...