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Mwai Kibaki President of Kenya

Kenya:

Located across the equator in east- central Africa and on the coast of the Indian Ocean. Kenya borders Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Sudan and is 224, 961 square miles. The country has mountains and plateaus and is tropical in the south, west, and central regions. The country is arid in the south as well as the north and northeast regions. Kenya has a high unemployment rate, crime and poverty, and droughts. It's population is 40.8 million people who's life expectancy is 56 years. Christianity is Kenyas religion and they speak Swahili and English.

History:

Mwai Kibaki was born in 1931. He studied in Uganda and Britian and later helped fight for Kenya's independence in 1960s. In the year 1963, he became an MP. Miwai was an ecomonist and served as a finance minister and vice president in the 1970's and 1980's. Mwai Kibaki ran for election three times and on his third election he was elected president of Kenya in December of 2002. Kibaki helped with the the economic growth of Kenya which was 0.6 percent when he began his term and 6.1 percent in the year 2006. With the good that Kibaki had done with economic growth it was unfortunate that under his control his government became involved in a scam that dealt with shadowy deals and public money.

References: The East African Community (EAC) was re-established in 1996 in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The EAC was established to "harmonize tariffs and custom regimes, have free movement of people, and improve the regional infastructures." Rwanda and Burundi also joined in July of 2007.

Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania are all strengthening as the countries work for "mutual economic benefit."

Kenya helped to resolve the civil war with Sudan and "reinstate" a central government in Somalia. Members of the Somalia Transitional Federal Instituitons relocated to Somalia and Kenya helped with this. Kenya has about 400,000 refugees. Majority of these refugees are from Somalia and some are from Sudan and Ethiopia. The Four Benchmarks: Kenya Ranks 26th on the Mo Ibrahim Index Rank

Safety and Rule of Law: 50
 * Personal Safety: 35
 * Rule of law: 48
 * accountability and corruption: 33
 * National Security: 83

Participaton and Human Rights: 55
 * Participation: 53
 * Rights: 48
 * Gender: 65

Sustainable Economic Opportunity: 45
 * Public Management:63
 * Private Sector: 45
 * Infrastructure: 13
 * enviroment and rural sector: 61

Human Development: 51
 * Health and Welfare: 54
 * Education: 49

Works Citied:

"Kenya." //U.S. Department of State//. Bureau of African Affairs, 28 Dec. 2010. Web. 24 Feb. 2011. .
 * "The Ibrahim Index » Mo Ibrahim Foundation." //Mo Ibrahim Foundation//. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2011. <http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/en/section/the-ibrahim