January 9, 2008
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Kenya's Great Rift
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Violence has engulfed Kenya in the wake of a disputed December 27 election, calling into question the country's reputation as an island of stability and prosperity in an otherwise unstable region. In this update to his January/February 2004 Foreign Affairs essay "Kenya After Moi," CSIS Senior Associate Joel D. Barkan analyzes the flawed election process and proposes a federalist solution to remedy the ethnic tensions that lie beneath Kenya's current political crisis.
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