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MAKING MUSIC IN POLITICS
If Kenya's political scene was set to music, the composition might go something like this:First a strong bass line, which rumbles under everything: Last Thursday, Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to approve a ...
RIFTS AND THREATS
To paraphrase the late master-of-the-miserable Frank McCourt: worse than being a freelancer in a city of freelancers is being a mother-of-two freelancer, who has yet to overcome her parenting guilt, in a city of freelancers. And worse than that is be...
Of Police and Politicians
Is it just me or is there something deeply worrying about the fact that the police were able to gun down nine people in Nairobi in one 12-hour period? The men who were killed were all alleged to be members of the Mungiki criminal/mafia gang. But what...
WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE KNOW WE DON\'T KNOW
At least some things are a little clearer now. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has said he believes crimes against humanity were committed in Kenya during violence after the 2007 election. After meeting Preside...
When Is a Reform not a Reform
The international community's message to the Kenyan government has been ringing out loud and clear: get serious reforms underway or else.And the response seems to be: we are and we don't appreciate you saying otherwise.If anything, the coalition gove...
MAKING KENYA AN EXAMPLE
It's been a bad couple of weeks for Kenya's governing elite. Scorned by an angry public over the president's reappointment of an unpopular anti-graft commissioner, berated by the United States for promised but paralysed reforms, threatened with trave...
