Ambassador McCarter has been engaging with Kenyans on Twitter following an Embassy media release on US support for the proposed Mombassa-Nairobi expressway. For background: U.S. withholds funding for Sh. 300 billion Mombasa-Nairobi expressway. This was the news on May 27,…
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…
I spent part of Independence Day during my year in Kenya at the party at the American Embassy residence. I had a nice time and appreciated the Ambassador’s courtesy in inviting me, but I was a bit surprised at the…
Kenya has had that one widely accepted successful presidential election out of six in the multiparty era following the end of the Cold War. The 2002 "Kibaki Tosha" "National Alliance Rainbow Coalition" election has remained the taproot of mythology about…
I touched a few bases while briefly in Washington recently. I was left with the impression of general "benign neglect" on Kenya, which would be expected given the overwhelming number of more immediate crisis situations around East Africa, such as…
[This post is revised to reflect a correction and revision from the East African.] The East African made an editorial slap at Michael Ranneberger and Jendayi Frazer in its "Cry havoc, and let slip the U.S. ex-diplomats" last Saturday to…
The new report "Freedom Under Threat: the Spread of Anti-NGO Measures in Africa was released today. It provides a valuable review of recent developments in counter-democracy push back from governments in power in numerous countries. In Kenya, here is a…
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…
Africa Confidential 's free January Kenya article is a must read for anyone in Washington charged with engagement on Kenya over the next three years. "Three's a crowd" Kenya's political landscape in 2019 will be dominated by two-way competition between…