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Kenya

2018: A Year of Dazzling Reforms & Stifling Standstill

In other words, this is a retrospective of the Horn of Africa. Mostly. Very subjective of course: 130 things. Warning: it is so long (you are welcome), it had to be divided into two halves: 1-65 and 66-130. By the time you are done reading both halves, we will need a new one for 2019.  When we started the…

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SBS ትግርንያ ፡ ቃለ መሕትት ምስ ሳልሕ ዩኑስ

This is a transcription of the interview of Saleh Younis conducted by SBS Radio Tigrinya on December 16. Many thanks to Eritrea Digest super fan who listened to and transcribed the interview which suffered from bad audio, which is entirely the fault of the interviewee. Thanks as well to interviewer Beyene Semere. በየነ: ሰማዕትና ሰማዕቲ…

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The Hood – Spring Edition

KENYA’S Daily Nation has the backgrounder which preceded the reconciliation between Kenyan President Uhuru and opposition leader Raila Odinga. It includes (1) elders of the the tribes the two politicians belong to (Kikuyu and Luo); (2) US ambassador Robert Godec; (3) Odinga’s decision to hold a swearing-in ceremony in defiance of Uhuru; (4) Retired Major…

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