The Nairobi joke is that President Daniel arap Moi is after a Nobel peace prize...
But Uhuru's patron beside him in dusty Gatundu is President Daniel arap Moi 78 who asked the crowd if they considered the young man fit to be their president...
Vol 43 No 14 |
- AFRICAN UNION
The reformers are led by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade (even though their own reform records are less than stellar); the dissidents led by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are a motley collection of autocrats such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who style themselves as African nationalists opposed to foreign interference...
The governments of President Daniel arap Moi and Premier Meles Zenawi though think no one should dominate as no government exists...
The betting is off for an historically neat succession in which President Daniel arap Moi hands over to Uhuru Kenyatta the leadership of the Kenya African National Union; Moi took over when Uhuru's father Jomo Kenyatta first President of independent Kenya died in 1978...
President Daniel arap Moi's government is betting that political backing from its Western friends will persuade the International Monetary Fund and World Bank once again to hold their noses and grant approval to a regime that has repeatedly broken its promises of reform (AC Vol 43 No 7)...
A Kenyan academic Michael Chege linked poverty to authoritarianism theft of state resources and commissions on contracts under regimes such as those of Cameroon's Paul Biya Gabon's Omar Bongo Kenya's Daniel arap Moi Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...
The dynamic duo President Daniel arap Moi and his Trade Minister Nicholas Kipyator Biwott dominate Kenyan politics more completely than they have for a decade (AC Vol 43 Nos 1 & 2)...
Inscrutable as the Sphinx President Daniel arap Moi confers favour on one faction then withdraws it the next day...