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Kenyans Vote (Updated)
UPDATE: Polls have closed at 5pm in Kenya, 10am Eastern in the US. See new Gettleman story “Kenyans vote on new constitution”. Follow the voting and results through live updates with this Global Voices...
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Kenya v2.0 or 1.3?
A week after the big party, several thoughts on where Kenya stands with the new constitution. First, I do think the successful referendum and passage of the new constitution is consequential in itself....
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Sudan Update
Major State Department briefing today with Special Envoy Gration, Assistant Secretary Carson and Samantha Power from NSC on Sudan diplomacy. Interesting reference to Kenya leadership: “Regional leaders...
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Sudan referendum voter registation begins Monday amid complaints by registrar
The head of Sudan’s voter registation effort blasted the Western donors for funding third parties to work in support of the registation effort for the referendum rather than fund the official agency...
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IRIN Africa | SUDAN: What they’re saying about the referendum
IRIN Africa | SUDAN: What they’re saying about the referendum The UN humanitarian news service has a run down of links to major recent reports relating to Sunday’s referendum from the International...
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China to send observers to Sudan Referendum–what will they look for? [Updated...
The link to the Reuters report from Beijing is here. China will send observers to Sudan when the south holds an independence referendum on January 9, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. “At...
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Looking to Sudan’s Referendum Sunday
The Financial Times covers a new report from Global Witness that concludes that a new oil revenue sharing agreement is needed to prevent Sudan from returning to war: The Khartoum government has yet to...
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Sudan Updates
Here is the “Sudan Vote Monitor” Sudan VoteMonitor is a project led by the Sudan Institute for Research and Policy (SIRP) http://www.sudaninstitute.org and Asmaa Society for Development...
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Sudan Referendum Voting Comes to Successful Conclusion, Results Next Month
A late AFP report in the Sunday Nation on-line gives some indication of the magnitude of secession sentiment at the polls, and turnout has by all accounts been high: Voters in Southern Sudan opted,...
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The Year Ahead in Tanzanian Politics
Commentary in the East African suggests that former prime minister Edward Lowassa is the man to beat in the race to succeed Jakaya Kikwete as president next year. Lowassa resigned in 2007 over a...
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Sudan referendum voter registation begins Monday amid complaints by registrar
The head of Sudan’s voter registation effort blasted the Western donors for funding third parties to work in support of the registation effort for the referendum rather than fund the official agency...
View ArticleSudan referendum voter registation begins Monday amid complaints by registrar
The head of Sudan’s voter registation effort blasted the Western donors for funding third parties to work in support of the registation effort for the referendum rather than fund the official agency...
View Article“THE DEBACLE OF 2007”– my piece in The Elephant on how Kenya’s politics was...
THE DEBACLE OF 2007: How Kenyan Politics Was Frozen and an Election Stolen with US Connivance | The Elephant The post “THE DEBACLE OF 2007” – my piece in The Elephant on how Kenya’s politics was...
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Challenges to the constitutional role of the Kenyan Courts by the Executive...
[Update: see new editorial from the New York Times: “Kenya on the brink again“. And Gathara’s World: “Kenya’s Future Increasingly Looks Like Its Past”; Kenya has basically regressed 50 years in the...
View ArticleAs U.S. Mission in Kenya passes from Godec to McCarter, Africa Confidential...
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...
View ArticleSudan referendum voter registation begins Monday amid complaints by registrar
The head of Sudan’s voter registation effort blasted the Western donors for funding third parties to work in support of the registation effort for the referendum rather than fund the official agency...
View ArticleIRIN Africa | SUDAN: What they’re saying about the referendum
IRIN Africa | SUDAN: What they’re saying about the referendum The UN humanitarian news service has a run down of links to major recent reports relating to Sunday’s referendum from the International...
View ArticleChina to send observers to Sudan Referendum–what will they look for? [Updated...
The link to the Reuters report from Beijing is here. China will send observers to Sudan when the south holds an independence referendum on January 9, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. “At...
View ArticleLooking to Sudan’s Referendum Sunday
The Financial Times covers a new report from Global Witness that concludes that a new oil revenue sharing agreement is needed to prevent Sudan from returning to war: The Khartoum government has yet to...
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