March 15, 2013

  • Political reform needs to ensure that all adversaries are represented in the political process

    The conventional wisdom in the Kenyan media is that the 2013 election has been an ethnic census, not an issue-based contest.  This is a half-truth which fails to recognise the issues that drive the ethnicisation...

  • How the electoral commission messed up the vote count

    Ever wondered what happened to your ballot after you dropped it into a ballot box at an election? To paraphrase Joseph Stalin, it’s not the people who vote that count; it’s the people who count...

March 14, 2013

  • The election of the first non-European Pope for more than a millennium – and the first from Latin America, home to 40 per cent of the world’s Catholics – reveals in the cardinals who elected him an awareness of the size and importance of the flock outside Europe.

  • The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)’s reconciliation committee will report its findings into the post-election row between the current Party President Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu’s camp and the losing candidate Nathan Nandala-Mafabi in two weeks’ time.

March 11, 2013

March 9, 2013

  • The normal, the unusual, and very strange things about Kenya election

    Kenya went to the polls on March 4. It was the first election under the new and quite...

  • Kenya's deputy Prime Minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, has won the presidential election by a very tight margin. Mr Kenyatta garnered 6,173,433 votes out of 12,338,667 total votes cast in last Monday's election giving him 50.03 per cent required to win while his main challenger Raila Odinga garnered 5,340,546 (43.28) per cent.

    These...

March 7, 2013

  • Tensions shot up in Kenya today after presidential hopeful Raila Odinga’s Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), which has been trailing in the polls, said preliminary election results had been “doctored” and pulled all its agents from the tallying centre at Bomas, Nairobi.

March 6, 2013

  • History has a strange way of repeating itself as two scions of Kenya’s founding fathers, Jomo Kenyatta and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, fought for the Holy Grail in Kenya’s presidential election.

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