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To: bvw

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/04/17/kenya.cabinet/index.html

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — Kenya swore in a new Cabinet on Thursday of more than 90 people, which one Kenyan official described as “a big burden on a poverty-stricken country.”

The ceremony capped months of violence in which about 1,000 people died following last year’s disputed elections. The Cabinet is split 50-50 between former bitter enemies from opposing parties.

After a power-sharing compromise, opposition leader Raila Odinga was sworn in as prime minister, the first person to hold that office since Jomo Kenyatta held it briefly after independence in 1963. Mwai Kibaki remains president.


95 posted on 07/20/2008 6:36:32 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks
Thanks again!

Hard to read what that means in practice. What I recollect is that in the British type systems a President is ceremonial and a Prime Minister is the power wielder.

96 posted on 07/20/2008 6:46:55 PM PDT by bvw
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