The rival camps in Kenya’s coalition government see very different implications for democracy in Africa in the agreement they signed up to under intense international and regional pressure eight months ago.
Among supporters of the Raila Odinga, the prime minister, who believe their candidate was robbed of victory at December’s presidential polls, the outcome – power sharing – showed that incumbent African heads of state can use electoral fraud and the coercive muscle of the state and still cling to office unsanctioned when they lose.
