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It’s mid-May, do you know where your election results are?
The Kenyan election was held on March 4. It is now May 16. Here is the link to the website of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. The IEBC announced its final presidential tally on… more →
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Making local government in Africa more autonomous for the continent's renaissance, by Chofor Che, 16 May 2013
wrote 5 days ago: There has been much talk on Africa’s renaissance especially by the World Bank and the African Develo … more →
It's mid-May, do you know where your election results are?
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wrote 5 days ago: The Kenyan election was held on March 4. It is now May 16. Here is the link to the website of the … more →
Does Chris Blattman hate state capacity?
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wrote 1 week ago: The simple answer is NO. The long answer is below. Blattman’s latest post decries Bill Gates … more →
The "Africa" Agenda
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wrote 1 week ago: By now those with an interest in Africa will be familiar with the rhetoric of Africa rising, the phe … more →
Ironies in Open Government: Was the Kenya PVT a "Parallel Vote Tabulation" or "Private Vote Tabulation"?
wrote 1 week ago: So now we have results of both a “Parallel Vote Tabulation” and an Exit Poll for the Mar … more →
[Updated with Video] “Fraud and Vote Patterns in Kenya's 2013 Election: Evidence from an Exit Poll”--Gibson and Long event in Washington Thursday
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wrote 2 weeks ago: “Fraud and Vote Patterns in Kenya’s 2013 Election: Evidence from an Exit Poll” Clark Gi … more →
France and Francophone Africa: A marriage of inconvenience. By Chofor Che, 29 April 2013
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wrote 3 weeks ago: France colonised a great part of Africa prior to independence in the 1960s. Former colonies of Franc … more →
AfriCOG's Seema Shah asks in Foreign Policy: "Are U.S. election watchdogs enabling bad behavior in Kenya?"
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wrote 3 weeks ago: UPDATE: See Dr. Shah’s article “Kenya: Supreme Court’s Disappointing Judgement … more →
EAC: Complaining of "lack of democracy and ideological disorientation" holding back Africa, does Museveni have any self-awareness at all?
wrote 3 weeks ago: American President George W. Bush meets with President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda Friday, July 11, 20 … more →
NATO and Kenyan democracy
wrote 3 weeks ago: NATO “CIMIC”, the Civil-Military Fusion Center in Norfolk, Virginia releases a post-elec … more →
Africa: World Bank Gives Scaring Statistics On Annual Losses From Lack of Sanitation, By All Africa, 22 April 2013
wrote 4 weeks ago: The World Bank has given a rather scaring statistics on the state of human conditions, saying that o … more →
A 'BRICs' Bank? No Thanks, The IMF And World Bank Are Bad Enough, by Jens F. Laurson and George Pieler, 22 April 2013, Forbes.com LLC
wrote 4 weeks ago: Led by China, the five “BRICS” states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) plan to set up a … more →
Thoughts on Kenya's Supreme Court opinion [Updated]
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wrote 1 month ago: UPDATE–April 21: Read Kenyan lawyer Wachira Maina’s devastating critique of the Court … more →
Less than a thousand days to respect the promises of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, by Chofor Che, 12 April 2013
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wrote 1 month ago: Eight objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were defined in 2000 when a number of Un … more →
Is Uhuru on his way to being the next East African authoritarian American darling?
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wrote 1 month ago: Before noting the choice of speakers for the Uhuruto inauguration, the idea that governance in Kenya … more →
Industrialisation in Africa: Beautiful dream, dreadful obstacles, by Chofor Che
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wrote 1 month ago: The 6th annual joint conference of ministers of finance of the African Union and the conference for … more →
At Easter, chicks come home to roost for U.S. for helping to underwrite impunity in Kenya; but "we" do not need Uhuruto
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wrote 1 month ago: The United States looked the other way on a stolen 2007 election in Kenya. Even though our Ambassado … more →
AfriCOG's vital role as Petioner 4 challenging the Kenya's IEBC
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wrote 1 month ago: Like everyone else who is engaged but not able to be in the courtroom, I am watching live broadcast … more →
Attacks on Kenyan Civil Society prefigured in Jubilee "manifesto"
wrote 1 month ago: The Jubilee (UhuRuto) Coalition manifesto contains a section entitled “Good Governance” … more →
