"During our review of the costs for seven grants, we found that only 41% of the grant funds were actually spent on direct program activities. More than 60% of IRI’s expenditures and almost 50% of NDI’s expenditures were for security…
From the new Human Rights Watch World Report. Note: "The police regularly targeted civilians for killings and other violence in 2009, as in previous years." http://www.hrw.org/en/world-report-2010/kenya The Uganda chapter is here, and the Ethiopia chapter is here.
Standard--Justice Minister urges ICC to ignore bids to derail prosecutions Nation--Muslim clerics disown protests and Al-Faisal Standard--Parliamentary Select Commission stalled on constituencies for new constitution, but Pres. Obama has called Pres. Kibaki and PM Odinga to push them to deliver.
Timely and interesting post here from the FCPA Blog, noting an article in the December issue of Foreign Affairs which discusses investigative reporting showing the ease of obtaining a new US biometric passport using a false identity, and tying this…
Kenya's Kibera slum overflows with street art -- latimes.com Feature on Solomon Munyundo, a.k.a Solo 7
The African Center for Security Studies and the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies will host "Prospects for Political Reform in Kenya: A Discussion with John Githongo, Kenyan anti-corruption campaigner, Moderated by William M. Bellamy, Director…
U.N. Experts Get Threats in Inquiry Into Somalia - NYTimes.com. It seems that anyone looking into anything sensitive in Nairobi is subject to threat these days. This will be a good test of where things stand on impunity. If people can…
"Obama, Oil and AFRICOM" from Daniel Volman in Pambazuka. No real editorial comment here--lots of key budget numbers relating to AFRICOM, and Defense and State Department military training/assistance/ etc., for African states. Important stuff. The existence of and significant budgetary…