Word: arap
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...HOUNDED BY ALLEGATIONS OF HUman rights abuses, economic mismanagement and corruption, the odds of winning re-election might seem about as good as the chances of surviving a head-on collision with a train. That, at least, was the opinion of many Kenyans one year ago, when President Daniel arap Moi started his campaign after Western donors cut off development aid, demanding that he abandon his single-party rule and hold an election. Fortunately for Moi, however, the opposition turned out to be so deeply divided that the President emerged the apparent winner in his first electoral encounter...
Cynics in Kenya refer to President Daniel arap Moi's mining interests as "That's mine! That's mine! And that's mine! . . ." Expatriate businessmen estimate that wealthy Nigerians have enough money in personal deposits abroad to pay off the country's entire foreign debt, more than $36 billion. Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko has a personal fortune that has been estimated from $4 billion to $6 billion, not far below the level of the country's external debt. He has isolated himself from his people -- and from gathering political unrest -- aboard a luxury yacht that cruises the Zaire...
...white regime while ignoring oppression elsewhere on the continent. As long ago as 1990, a group including Robinson, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King and several black elected officials and labor leaders issued a statement calling for an end to the "violence and tyranny" inflicted by Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi's one-party government. Robinson has since repeated the criticism in appearances before U.S. congressional committees, adding Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko and other African tyrants to the list...
...with a bullet in the head 21 months ago, a police report suggested he had committed suicide. Last week a judicial commission of inquiry finally learned the results of an independent investigation, headed by Scotland Yard detective John Troon, that had been suppressed by the government of President Daniel arap Moi. Troon concluded that Ouko had been murdered to stop his revelations of high-level corruption in the Moi administration...
...exercise in shuttle diplomacy was intended to repair U.S.-Kenyan relations, which have become increasingly strained since President Daniel arap Moi's crackdown on dissidents last month. Afterward, Moi described the talks in such glowing terms as "friendly," "genuine" and "sincere." But U.S. officials had a decidedly different assessment of the three-day parley. One diplomat declared that Kenya had "backstepped politically and economically...