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Why coalition keeps swinging from accord to discord

By Peter Kagwanja

Three years on, Kenya’s power-sharing Grand Coalition continues to swing like a rollercoaster from accord to discord. The National Accord and Reconciliation Act (28 February 2008) ended 60 days of impasse and bloodletting that followed the declaration of President Mwai Kibaki as victor in the 2007 presidential contest and the ensuing rejection of a court remedy to the dispute by the challenger, Raila Odinga, opening the floodgates of citizens’ protests.

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