Kenya

It’s two months after the March 4 2013 elections in Kenya. It’s about 69 days since the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (the IEBC) declared Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto duly elected president and deputy president respectively.

Kenya is an usual country in that it is one of the countries where the number of workers joining trade union movements is actually on the decrease, unlike in the 1960s and 1970s where the future of those who were just employed used to start by joining a trade union.

Kenya is going through exciting times. The discovery of oil last year in Turkana area, the Northern parts of the country, and the successful conduct of a largely peaceful election in March 2013 and transition to the new administration under President Uhuru Kenyatta have set tongues wagging.

The reason why our forefathers took up arms and went to the forest to fight the colonial government was primarily against dispossession of their lands.

The 2013 election was pivotal in many respects. It was the first election under the new constitution promulgated in August 2010.

(Nairobi, April 9, 2013) – President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, who are being sworn in April 9, 2013, should ensure full cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC), Human Rights Watch said today.

We, the under signed non-governmental organizations working to promote human rights and good governance in our respective countries and regionally in Africa, are gravely concerned about incidences of intimidations and hate campaigns directed at members of Kenya’s civil society increasingly occurr

The introduction of biometric voter identification and results transmission systems by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) was a stipulation of the election act that was meant to ease the problems associated with the manual voter registration and tallying after the Krigler

The general consensus is that political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi’s ‘tyranny of tribal numbers’ theory was the determining factor for Uhuru Kenyatta’s contested recent win in the March 4 elections.