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Ironies in Open Government: Was the Kenya PVT a “Parallel Vote Tabulation” or...

So now we have results of both a “Parallel Vote Tabulation” and an Exit Poll for the March 4, 2013 Kenyan election. The irony here is that the Exit Poll was privately funded, yet we have, courtesy of...

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Kenya’s IEBC dangles “kitu kidogo” for political parties to avoid publishing...

The Star reported this week that the “IEBC wants political parties act amended“. From the headline one would expect to read perhaps an article on some type of reform arising out of the failed primary...

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“The War for History” part seven: what, specifically, happened with Kenyans’...

I am only aware of one specifically articulated explanation of the “much [that] can happen between the casting of votes and the final tabulation of ballots” as Ambassador Ranneberger described it to...

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Hillary Clinton, Scott Gration and “public private” e-mail at the State...

The news in today’s New York Times that Secretary of State Clinton did not use a government e-mail account during her service in office, but rather handled her official e-mail communication through one...

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Pre-election violence in Kenya: here we go again?

The pre-election killings in Kenya in 2013 were “only” 500 or so as reported at the time.  The various branches of the Kenya Police Service were more restrained than they seem to be this cycle.  In the...

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Why is IRI’s report on the Kenya 2007 Exit Poll missing from the USAID...

This is the latest on my ongoing Freedom of Information Act requests to get the U.S. government records on the USAID programs I supervised for the International Republican Institute as East Africa...

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East Africa is the pits for press freedom, but congratulations to Namibia,...

Here is the new 2019 World Press Freedom index from RSF, with the United States down to No. 48 (!) and France and the U.K. at 32 and 33 respectively. Namibia at 23, Ghana at 27 and South Africa at 31...

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“Livondo Tosha”? Akasha Brothers sentencing memo has “interesting” discussion...

“Livondo Tosha”/”Make Peace” in Kibera, early 2008: From the U.S. Attorney’s Memorandum to the U.S. District Court for the sentencing hearing for Baktash and Ibrahim Akasha, filed back on July 25....

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Grand railroad corruption: Kenya’s Daily Nation drops expose of grossly...

A vital “must read” from the Daily Nation confirms that in spite of Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta’s promise to release the contracts for the truncated Standard Gauge Railroad project, the Government...

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