"Livondo Tosha"/"Make Peace" in Kibera, early 2008: From the U.S. Attorney's Memorandum to the U.S. District Court for the sentencing hearing for Baktash and Ibrahim Akasha, filed back on July 25. (Yesterday Baktash was sentenced to twenty five years, and…
Ruto Hires Former ICC Co-Suspect Sang For His Kalenjin Radio Station, Kenyan Report, June 5, 2019 "Former Kass FM presenter Joshua Sang is set to make a comeback to the airwaves after landing a job at Emoo FM, a station…
Instead of "the coalition of the killing" a "coalition of the stealing"? Let us review the 2013 campaign, the next presidential election campaign after Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga shook hands on February 28, 2008 to end the 2007 election…
Could one make a case that perhaps it was not me after all, but more the Ambassador and/or others at the State Department who "went native" in Kenya over the 2007 election controversy (and in other situations)? Interesting to think…
Macharia Gaitho seems to have been of late the designated Kenyan columnist to convey certain background perspectives from the American Embassy. His April 8 Sunday Nation column provides in interview form a review by outgoing Ambassador Godec of his tenure and…
[Update Feb. 2: Here is a good overview from Martina Stevis-Gridnef in the Wall Street Journal, "Kenya Crackdown on Media, Opposition Deepens"; Fr. Gabriel Dolan explains how the Kenyatta government has popularized the "National Resistance Movement by banning it, with…
I originally sought this document in a separate FOIA in 2009 because it seemed to me in Nairobi in real time as Chief of Party for the USAID-funded exit poll and election observation programs that this Rice/Solana conversation marked a…
I was pleasantly surprised by the previous statements from the State Department both from Washington and in Nairobi, calling for "national dialogue" in the wake of Kenya's fraught and objectionably violent environment in the wake of the boycotted October 26…
Still no more documents from USAID from my 2015 request for material involving our support for the IEBC in the 2013 election, from which I finally learned in April of this year that USAID had tasked the American International Foundation…
“Kenya’s election rerun could be a major setback for African democracy” a new Washington Post editorial was published Monday evening in the United States. I suspect The Post here has fairly well reflected the general view of the Kenyan situation in…