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Give yourself a headstart: Get full access to The Africa Report on all your devices. Subscribe now. Ruto immediately attacked him as a spoiler.

Most of its losses in the 1 November local government elections have been in metros, where it retained outright control of only two out of the eight - all of which were under ANC control following the first local government elections in The Kenyan judiciary is not itself beyond reproach.

It is still weighed down by corruption and bribery. And it delivers justice slowly. In addition, it suffers from a legacy of executive interference and appointments and promotions tainted by ethnicity.

But the courts have increasingly asserted themselves against an unruly executive. The annulment of the presidential elections in over fraud and the recent quashing of the constitutional changes affirm this.

The first-generation politicians shredded the independence constitution to suit their personal goals. This set forth social, economic, and political problems that the country is yet to shake off. These include corruption, inequalities and impunity.

State and political violence and the brazen disregard of the rule of law are symptoms of this legacy. The president is constitutionally a symbol of national unity. They have acted as the fulcrum of tribalism propelled by impunity and grand corruption.

All were steeped in insular politics and struggled to tower above the smallness of self-interest. The ruling Jubilee Party is also being pulled in different directions, with many members openly supporting candidates from other parties.

This situation, along with many other factors, puts the country in a fragile situation. While democratic elections are usually promising, Kenya has developed a firmly established pattern of electoral violence since the rebirth of pluralist democratic politics OHCHR, Despite once being seen as a beacon of peace in Africa, during the , , , and general elections the country experienced violence that killed many people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.

While conflict triggers are multi-dimensional and include historical, structural, institutional, legal, and cultural factors, they have always reflected tensions between ethnic identities. This is because the foundation of pluralistic democratic politics in the country was anchored on political party structures that originally segmented the country along ethnic lines.

For instance, the aftermath of the December contest led to months of heavy ethnopolitical violence that is estimated to have killed 1, people and forced more than , others to flee their homes BBC, This violence primarily impacted multiethnic, low-income areas in Nairobi, Naivasha, Kisumu, and Mombasa. Business leaders report huge losses and many predict that Kenya will be unable to meet projected growth targets.

The subsequent general election in was relatively peaceful but ethnopolitical tensions continued to build up in most parts of the country, with Tana River County experiencing a series of massacres in late and early that killed over people, wounded many more, and displaced tens of thousands HRW, Other big frustration among Kenyans, however, is that they see their lawmakers as doing little for their pay, which is among the highest in the world for politicians. When allowances and other perks are added, that amount almost doubles.

Gross Domestic Product per capita is the total value of a nation's output divided by its citizenry and is seen as a reasonably accurate measure of a country's standard of living. Despite experiencing turbulence in its democratic journey — such as the post-election violence — the East African nation has remained relatively stable politically. Since the introduction of multi-party democracy in December , Kenya has had peaceful power transfers, albeit not without controversy.

But the low turn-out for voter registration should be a wake-up call, warns political analyst Martin Oloo. He doesn't believe there's much more that the IEBC or politicians could do to persuade larger number of young people in Kenya to register as voters.

The IEBC is now hoping that it will have better success with its voter registration drive for the Kenyan diaspora scheduled for December.

During the general election, Kenyans living in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Africa were allowed to cast their ballots. Global minimum tax is supposed to bring tax justice. But less than half of African countries are on board. Kenya and Nigeria have backed out amid uncertainty over how much it would benefit poor countries.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ali Bongo of Gabon are among the African leaders named in the Pandora Papers investigation as hiding assets in offshore tax havens. Got an opinion about the stories making headlines? International SMS charges apply.