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The articles below are the most recent additions to the Kenya category of Africa InfoServ. To read the article, click on its title. To see more Kenya articles or to search a particular topic, click on Africa Archive.

Articles marked with a magnifying glass ( Longer, analytical article. ) are longer, more analytical pieces.

1. Longer, analytical article. Civil society needs a new vision
Author: Zaya Yeebo Date Written: 2 July 2009
Primary Category: Kenya Document Origin: Pambazuka News 440
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
Key Words: Kenya, civil society, vision,

Summary & Comment: Civil society’s ability to influence change without violence is often ignored. The author calls on Kenyans to believe in the "power of their own institutions, including traditional ones, and their own ability to resolve political and social problems - including poverty and social deprivation." DN
2. Longer, analytical article. Celibacy debate: Comment and analysis
Author: CISA 059 Date Written: 18 June 2009
Primary Category: Kenya Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
Secondary Category: Africa General Source URL: http://www.cisanewsafrica.org
Key Words: Kenya, priests, celibacy, Njue, homosexual, married,

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3. Longer, analytical article. Government of Kenya committed to Police reforms?
Author: Erasmus Twaruhukwa, Nairobi Date Written: 18 June 2009
Primary Category: Kenya Document Origin: ISS Today
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.issafrica.org
Key Words: Kenya, police, executions, Alston, UN Human Rights, mungiki

Summary & Comment: The Kenyan government has acknowledged some police extrajudiciary killings, hopefully a positive signal of willingness to change and effect reforms. "Police reforms alone however may not achieve much unless corresponding reforms are also made elsewhere such as in the judiciary and prosecution department. Definitely, commitment to reforms goes . . . [expand]
4. Unfinished business: Moving Kenya forward
Author: Korir Sing’Oei Date Written: 18 June 2009
Primary Category: Kenya Document Origin: Pambazuka News 438
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
Key Words: Kenya, Shifta War, ethnic conflict, violence,

Summary & Comment: The author points out that there are clear similarities between the State’s response to the 1963 Shifta War and today’s military crackdowns at Mt. Elgon and stresses that the government continues to have a single method of conflict resolution: state-sponsored violence. Accountability and an apology are called for from the President and Prime Minist . . . [expand]
5. Longer, analytical article. Open letter to IMF: Kenya’s odious loans
Author: Partnership for Change Date Written: 11 June 2009
Primary Category: Kenya Document Origin: Pambazuka News 437
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
Key Words: Kenya, IMF, odious loans,

Summary & Comment: The Partnership for Change has written an open letter to the International Monetary Fund stating that the IMF’s odious loans to Kenya impoverish the nation because of collusion with corrupt agents. DN
6. Kenya: Annan warns leaders
Author: Oliver Mathenge Date Written: 11 June 2009
Primary Category: Kenya Document Origin: The Nation, Nairobi,
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.nationmedia.com/
Key Words: Kenya, Annan, ICC, names, local tribunal, election violence,

Summary & Comment: President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have ten weeks to try again to form a local tribunal to try suspected perpetrators of last year’s post-election violence. If Kenya does not appoint the tribunal by the end of August, former UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, will send the the suspects' names to The International Criminal Court in . . . [expand]
7. The unseen majority: Nairobi’s two million slum-dwellers
Author: various Date Written: 1 June 2009
Primary Category: Kenya Document Origin: Amnesty International
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.amnesty.org/en
Key Words: Kenya, Nairobi, rights, land, slum-dwellers,

Summary & Comment: This Amnesty International report draws on interviews with individuals and focus group discussions in December 2008 and February/March 2009 with more than 200 residents of five informal settlements and slums in Nairobi. AI's Demand Dignity Campaign launched in May 2009 is exposing and combating the human rights violations that drive and deepen . . . [expand]

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