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TIMELINE-Kenya damaged after delayed reforms
13 Nov 2009 14:43:12 GMT
Source: Reuters
Nov 13 (Reuters) - Ministers in Kenya's fractious coalition should stop squabbling in public because they risk doing further damage to the reputation of east Africa's biggest economy, the president said on Friday. [ID:nLD013113]

Here is a timeline of events in Kenya since last year's post-election violence:

Dec. 30, 2007 - The Electoral Commission declares President Mwai Kibaki re-elected and he is hurriedly sworn in. Riots erupt and his rival, Raila Odinga, says the vote was stolen.

Jan. 8, 2008 - Kibaki announces 17 ministers for his new cabinet. Protesters burn barricades in response.

Jan. 24 - Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, mediating in the crisis, brings Kibaki and Odinga together for their first meeting since the crisis began.

Feb. 28 - Kibaki and Odinga sign power-sharing agreement.

March 6 - Kibaki urges parliament to enshrine into law the power-sharing deal and commemorates the losses in the bloodshed, which killed at least 1,300 people and uprooted 300,000.

April 12 - Kibaki and Odinga agree on a cabinet after one-on-one secret talks. The 41-member cabinet, Kenya's largest and costliest ever, is sworn in five days later.

Sept. 18 - An official inquiry says the conduct of the polls was so defective it is impossible to establish true or reliable results for the 2007 elections.

Oct. 15 - An inquiry into the violence calls for an international tribunal to prosecute the ringleaders, but does not disclose the names of the top suspects.

Feb. 12, 2009 - Parliament fails to agree on the creation of a special court in Kenya to try those involved in the violence. March 6 - Demonstrations break out against illegal police killings. The day before, two activists were killed in Nairobi. The government had said they were a front for a crime gang.

March 10 - Thousands of students protest against alleged police killings.

April 6 - Justice Minister Martha Karua resigns in disgust over stalled political reforms.

July 9 - Annan says he has handed a sealed envelope with the names of at least 10 alleged masterminds of the violence to the International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor.

Aug. 5 - Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells the government it must implement long-delayed reforms.

Sept. 30 - Kenya's anti-corruption chief, Aaron Ringera, resigns, ending a stand-off between Kibaki and parliament, which had rejected Ringera's reappointment.

Nov. 5 - ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo says during a visit to Kenya that he will request an investigation into suspected crimes against humanity committed during the violence.

Nov. 11 - A bid by a lawmaker to create a special court to try lower-level perpetrators of the 2008 violence is delayed again when too few lawmakers turn up to debate the bill. (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit, (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/)
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