The Kenyan Experience

Background: Moi and Corruption in Kenya

• Africa Analysis, Creating a Toothless Watchdog Against Official Corruption, 31 July 2002
• Global Information Network, Katy Salmon, Urban Bribery Index, 21 January 2002
• BBC, Corruption Costs Kenya $1bn a year, 30 May 2003
• BBC, Corruption Besets Kenya Business, 25 January 2005
• Institute for Economic Affairs, Kenya, Corruption in Kenya, August 2000
• Transparency International, Kenya, DealingPast, Economic Crimes and the Transition, 1 August 2002
• Mail and Guardian, Half of Kenya's Judges are Corrupt, 30 September 2003
• BBC, Cathy Jenkins, IMF Withholds Kenyan Aid, 18 January 2001
• East African Standard, Tom Mogusu, Graft Hurting Investment Flow, says Kippra, 23 January 2005
• African Business, Ander Versi, The Burr of Corruption, March 2005

Kibaki and Anti-Corruption

• Africa Analysis, Former 'bigwigs' Start to Fall, 30 April 2004
• News24, Kenya Declares War on Graft, 1 January 2004
• Mail & Guardian, Kenya Enacts Graft Busting Law, 17 April 2004
• Mail & Guardian, Kenya Sweeps Corrupt Ruler out of Power, 29 December 2002
• World Bank, Reforms in Governance in Kenya, 2003
• BBC, Cathy Jenkins, Kibaki Opens Parliament, 18 February 2003
• BBC, Kibaki Vows to Fight Corruption, 29 December 2002
• News24, Million Cheer Kibaki, 30 December 2002
• USINFO, Kelly Machinchick, USINFO News Kenyan Government Must End Corruption, 20 February 2003

The Goldenberg Affair

• The Nation, Recover Looted Billions, Urge Lawyers, 10 February 2005
• Mail & Guardian, Kenya Seeks to Unravel Fraud, 19 June 2003
• Afrol News, So Far, Corruption Worth US$ 1billion Disclosed in Kenya, 16 December 2004
• The East African Standard, Counsel: Goldenberg Scam Cost Sh100b, 11 February 2005
• BBC, Kenya Hunts for Missing Billions, 6 December 2003
• New York Times, Marc Lacey, Kenya Joins Nations Pursuing Funds Stolen by Ex-Leader, 21 December 2003
• East African Standard, T. Wolf, Repatriate Looted Cash to Sort out Kenya's Debt, 13 June 2005
• The Nation (Kenya), US$1 Billion Loot is Traced to Three Top Citizens, 29 April 2004
• Peter Warutere, Anatomy of a Scandal: Money, Power and the Winded Path of Goldenberg's Deals

The Inquiry

• Mail & Guardian, Kenya Scam Inquiry Suspended, 30 November 2004
• Transparency International, The Abuse of Export Compensation Schemes in Kenya and Argentina, 24 February 2003
• BBC, Kenyan Papers Says Gold Scam Probe Report Expected to Lay Blame, 11 February 2005
• Gibson Kamau Kuria, Assisting Counsel, Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Goldenberg Affair, 17 September 2003
• Kenya Launches Inquiry into £400m Export Scam, 26 February 2003
• Financial Times, William Wallis, Kenya: Officials, Banks in $1bn Corruption Probe, 15 December 2003
• Mail & Guardian, Marathon Kenyan Graft Inquiry Ends, 10 February 2005
• Inter-Press Service, Darren Taylor, Moi Casts Long Shadow Over Goldenberg Commission, 18 February 2005
• Sunday Times, Moi is Accused of £2 Billion Diamond Scam, 13 June 2004

Loss of Political Will?

• The Times (UK), Xan Rice, Anti-Bribery Chief Gives up in Land of Greased Palms, 9 February 2005
• News24, Corruption Returns to Kenya, 3 August 2004
• The East African Standard, Githongo Breaks his Silence, 15 April 2005
• The East African Standard, Justice up for Sale, Says Githongo, 9 June 2005
• Daily Nation, Kenya Anti-Graft Watchdog Boss' Resignation Setback, 17 April 2005
• Mail & Guardian, Rodrique Ngowi, Kenya Takes US Corruption Message to Heart, 9 February 2005
• Mail & Guardian, Kenyan Anti-graft Chief Quits as Sleaze Reports Mount, 7 February 2005
• Mail & Guardian, Kenya's Anti-Corruption Tsar Quits, 8 February 2005
• The Nation, TI Row Spills into Berlin Parent Chapter, 17 April 2005