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December 1, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa
Pope Offers ‘Home Truths’ About African Elites

In November during a Nairobi, Kenya slum visit, Pope Francis used plain language to express home truths about African elites. According to UK media the Pope ascribed the “injustices” suffered by the …

Pope Francis
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

July 23, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Sudan’s Bashir in Nigeria

Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, is under indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has a warrant out for his arrest. He briefly attended a July 13-14 African Union (A…

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir addresses a joint news conference with his South Sudan's counterpart Salva Kiir in Juba April 12, 2013.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

February 26, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Polls Show Kenya Presidential Contest in Dead Heat

Kenya goes to the polls on March 4 with Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga the only credible presidential candidates. The Ipsos Synovate poll shows that Kenyatta is ahead with 44.8 percent of the vote t…

THIKA, Kenya A policeman controls supporters of Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga, presidential candidate of the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), during Odinga's campaign rally in Thika town, 40 km (25 miles) from Nairobi, February 26, 2013.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

April 13, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Justice and Accountabilty: Kenya and Uganda

Kenya's Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta (L, back row), Cabinet Secretary Francis Muthaura (2nd L, front row), and former police chief Hussein Ali appear (2nd R, front row) at the International Crimin…

Justice and Accountabilty: Kenya and Uganda
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

April 3, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya Elections

While violence broke out sporadically, post-election Kenya is far from the domestic Armageddon that followed the 2007 elections. Uhuru Kenyatta, under indictment by the International Criminal Court (…

Kenya's Chief Justice Willy Mutunga (3rd L) leads the Supreme Court Judges Njoki Ndungu (L-R), Philip Tunoi, Jackton Ojwang, Mohamed Ibrahim and Smokin Wanjala, in Kenya's capital Nairobi, March 30, 2013.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition