Vol 58 No 25 | KENYA Allowance alliance 15th December 2017 Members of parliament of the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) have boycotted the National Assembly since August's controversial elections, bringing legislative business to...
Vol 58 No 23 | KENYA Unpacking Raila's resistance 17th November 2017 As the country simmers after its election re-run, churchmen take to diplomacy – and politicians to the street and social media In an eloquent address to a full auditorium at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC on the morning of 9 November, Raila Odinga, leader of Ken...
Vol 58 No 23 | KENYA Counting on the counties 17th November 2017 Hopes are high that however dangerous national politics may be, regional government will reduce ethnic and economic tension Devolving power to Kenya's 47 counties was one of the main provisions of the 2010 constitution drafted in response to the post-election violence in 2007-08. Moderate government and...
Vol 58 No 23 | KENYATANZANIA Making policy on the hoof 17th November 2017 President John Magufuli has picked an unexpected new fight on the Kenyan border. Over 1,100 cattle seized from Maasai herders in Tanzania's Kilimanjaro and Mara regions in late Oct...
Vol 58 No 22 | KENYA A question of legitimacy 30th October 2017 President Uhuru Kenyatta starts his second term facing street protests, legal challenges to his election, and deep divisions in the electoral commission Neither side in the over-heated election row looks ready to talk, let alone negotiate. Taking a shot at his opponents for representing the 'politics of darkness' and accusing them ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 58 No 22 | KENYA What the landslide buried 3rd November 2017 Nobody got what they wanted from the election re-run. Kenyatta got a weaker mandate and the opposition's tactics misfired Surely no president can look on a 98% majority with as much dismay as President Uhuru Kenyatta. The boycott of the 26 October poll by his main rival, Raila Odinga, gave him a massi...
Vol 58 No 21 | KENYA A commission under siege 20th October 2017 The sudden resignation of an electoral commissioner raises further doubts about the schedule for the rerun election The sudden resignation of Roselyn Akombe, one of the eight commissioners on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), has cast fresh uncertainty over the planned ...
Vol 58 No 21 | KENYA Crisis? What crisis? 16th October 2017 Our correspondents answer the most critical questions about the country's increasingly heated political contest Is there a political crisis in Kenya? Would the involvement of foreign mediators help solve it?On this issue there is stark disagreement between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposi... READ FOR FREE
Vol 58 No 20 | KENYA No open-and-shut case 6th October 2017 The Court ruling on the election gave politicians and the IEBC no road map on how to get out of the resulting mess When Kenya's Supreme Court voided the election of President Uhuru Kenyatta, by four to two, it became the first-ever African court to unseat a sitting president, and only the third...
Vol 58 No 19 | KENYA The incumbent never loses 14th September 2017 No sitting president has ever lost an election in Kenya, but no such election has ever been annulled. What happens next will be rooted in the history of the alliances and splits in Kenya’s previous presidential polls Founding President Jomo Kenyatta and his successor Daniel arap Moi ruled in turn from 1964 until 2002 under the umbrella of the Kenya African National Union, the party which brough...