Word: kenyattas
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...letter to Vorenberg had been authored by a 38-year-old political activist named Muhammad I. Kenyatta, then beginning his third-year at the Law School...
...their allies. While Kibaki's team retained most of the powerful posts, including finance and foreign affairs, Odinga's allies in the Orange Democratic Movement got several choice spots as well. Musalia Mudavadi, Odinga's No. 2, was named deputy prime minister, as was a prominent Kibaki ally, Uhuru Kenyatta, son of independent Kenya's first President, Jomo Kenyatta...
...Rift Valley, land has been a continual source of conflict in Kenya. Since the colonial period when British settlers displaced Kenyans from their land at the beginning of the 20th century, there has yet to be adequate compensation for those who lost property. During the years following independence, Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya, distributed national resources to an elite inner circle rather than to the landless peasants. Kenyatta began a cycle of favoritism that continued under the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi and most recently under President Mwai Kibaki. Because presidents had been able to get away with...
...thousands to flee their homes may remain a mystery. Other questions are easier to answer. The immediate cause? A civilian coup by Kibaki, following a close race with challenger Odinga in the Dec. 27 general election. Three days after the vote, on live television, paramilitary police stormed the Kenyatta International Conference Center, where the vote was being counted and Odinga had a substantial lead. Minutes later, the head of the election commission declared Kibaki the winner. Kibaki was sworn in later the same day. That decision fanned simmering resentment against Kibaki's tribe, the Kikuyu, the largest of Kenya...
When the moment of agreement finally came at 3 a.m., bleary-eyed delegates erupted into whoops and cheers on the floor of Nairobi's cavernous Jomo Kenyatta International Conference Center. After almost two weeks of often bitter debate, delegations from 160 countries managed a relatively harmonious conclusion to a conference marking the end of the United Nations Decade for Women. A series of compromises enabled the conference to adopt unanimously a document of "forward-looking strategies" for women that avoided ideological extremes. "The U.N. won in spite of itself," said Delegate Rosario Manalo of the Philippines, "and it took women...