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  • Kenyatta and Muthara and two other men—radio presenter Joshua arap Sang and William Ruto, a former education minister and another presidential hopeful—were ordered on Monday to stand trial at the Hague for crimes against humanity in the bloody aftermath of the disputed 2007 election.

    Kenyan Finance Minister Exits Post in Wake of Charges in The Hague Solomon Moore 2012

  • Proteges of former president Daniel arap Moi, and both extremely wealthy, they have been touring the country together recently to muster support.

    Kenyan politicians going on trial in The Hague accused of crimes against humanity 2011

  • In a press statement, top foreign envoys to Somalia – including the U. N.'s Special Representative Augustine Mahiga, his counterpart from the African Union Boubacar Diarra, and Kipruto arap Kirwa from the regional body IGAD – described the ongoing feud between Somali President Sharif Sheik Ahmed and the Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke as "unhelpful" and "potentially damaging" to a country ravaged by nearly two decades of war.

    International Backers of Somalia's TFG Show Growing Unease 2010

  • In a press statement, top foreign envoys to Somalia – including the U. N.'s Special Representative Augustine Mahiga, his counterpart from the African Union Boubacar Diarra, and Kipruto arap Kirwa from the regional body IGAD – described the ongoing feud between Somali President Sharif Sheik Ahmed and the Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke as "unhelpful" and "potentially damaging" to a country ravaged by nearly two decades of war.

    International Backers of Somalia's TFG Show Growing Unease 2010

  • Wako was originally appointed by former President Daniel arap Moi and has been the attorney general for nearly 20 years.

    US Envoy Calls for Ouster of Top Kenyan Officials 2010

  • In 2005 Kenya's high court ordered Morton to pay the country's chief justice 6m shillings £45,700 for defaming him in his 1998 book about Daniel arap Moi, Moi: The Making of an African Statesman.

    Andrew Morton working on Prince William and Kate Middleton book Benedicte Page 2010

  •   I had bookmarked arap-to-English translation engine on my computer so I could separate the gangstas from the wankstas who applied for federal funding.

    A Day in the Life of a Hip-Hop Grants Administrator 2010

  • The prosecutor also named former police commissioner Mohammed Hussein Ali; the head of public service, Francis Muthaura, and two opposition figures, Henry Kosgey, the minister of industrialization; and Joshua arap Sang, a radio broadcaster.

    Kenyan Violence Probed by Court Sarah Childress 2010

  • Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo Kenyatta led Kenya from independence in 1963 until his death in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi took power in a constitutional succession.

    Kenya 2009

  • Reeling from the scandals of the Daniel arap Moi regime, Kenyans had finally had enough of the rampant corruption that permeated virtually every aspect of their lives -- a 2001 survey found that the average city-dwelling Kenyan shelled out 16 bribes per month.

    Jake Whitney: Betraying the Tribe: Michela Wrong and the Foundations of African Corruption 2009

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