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Spotlight | Kenya
Kikuyu support for Kibaki dwindles

Certain of the most loyal Kikuyu supporters of President Mwai Kibaki can’t find a role in the new constitution that the Head of State will put to a referendum on 4 August. It is not only the text of the [...]

Published on 26/06/2010 at 22:03 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Kibaki wants an Odinga-Kenyatta ticket

The comfortable win by the Yes vote in the constitutional referendum on 4 August finally convinced President Mwai Kibaki that the best way for the Kikuyu to hold on to their riches and their political future was to back the [.

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Spotlight | Kenya
The coalition takes a new beating

The governing coalition formed between the PNU of President Mwai Kibaki and the ODM of Prime Minister Raila Odinga has entered into a new zone of strong turbulence. Two events of different origins are converging to rock this already unsteady [.

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Raila Odinga out to woo Central Province

In an attempt to make up for his foreseeable fall in popularity among the Kalenjin and the coastal populations following the dispute with his former allies William Ruto and Najib Balala, Prime Minister Raila Odinga has set out to win [.

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Odinga may reshuffle his team

Raila Odinga is considering replacing certain ministers from his party with whom he is in open conflict.

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Uhuru Kenyatta vs Raila Odinga

Any reason can be used as an excuse to create splits in the governing coalition. The latest: the purchase of a building to house the Prime Ministerial services.

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Grand coalition on the brink of the abyss

Just a year after it was established, the governing "grand coalition" between President Mwai Kibaki’s PNU and Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s ODM is already suffering from internal strain. This overstaffed team (it has 94 members) has lost its credibility in [.

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Grand Coalition risks imploding

The government coalition formed less than a year ago, in March 2008 by President Mwai Kibaki and his rival who became Prime Minister Raila Odinga, is already in danger. Kibaki lit the blue touch paper on 2 January when he [.

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Grand coalition or nest of vipers

The appointment of a very large (almost 100 Members) coalition government between the two main rivals in the December 2007 presidential election, President Mwai Kibaki and his new Prime Minister Raila Odinga, will bring a temporary halt to their conflict.

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The delicate path to negotiation

The timetable proposed by the mediator Kofi Annan to the two Kenyan rivals (it stipulates four weeks to stop the cycle of violence followed by one year to initiate the necessary constitutional reforms) says much about the complex nature of [.

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The men who bet on Raila Odinga

Unless he takes the responsibility of plunging his country into the chaos of government by force, President Mwai Kibaki, who was hastily inaugurated for a second mandate on 30 December, will sooner or later have to accept to negotiate with [.

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Kibaki in pole position

President Mwai Kibaki has all the cards on his side for the presidential election in December. He has thrown out the now fragile NARC coalition which brought him to power in 2002 and formed an alliance with his former adversary [.

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The networks of Kibaki's challengers

With just a few months to go until the general election at the end of 2007, the main challengers to the outgoing President Mwai Kibaki are still looking for political parties to back them in the forthcoming presidential poll.

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The dinosaurs make a big comeback

Whereas the young KANU hotheads, like Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto, are in league with the opposition, former dignitaries of the regime of former President Daniel arap Moi are more inclined to narrow the gap between their positions and those [.

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Candidates lining up for the presidential election

With over a year to go, political life in Kenya has already polarised with the perspective of the presidential election at the end of 2007, with seven potential candidates at the starting blocks. President Mwai Kibaki will probably defend his [.

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President Kibaki plays his last card

The day after the constitutional referendum on 21 November, when his side was resoundingly defeated by partisans of voting No, President Mwai Kibaki surprised everybody by playing one of his last cards. An unprecedented fact in Kenya, he sacked the [.

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