Snapshot
Snapshot
17 January 2005 - editor
December 17: All the 210 elected MPs are given constituency offices with 10 members of staff each.
December 19: IMF releases KES 18b to Kenya under the poverty reduction and growth facility.
December 31: The East African Customs Union is launched simultaneously in Nairobi, Kampala and Dar-es-Salaam.
December 31: President Kibaki refuses to assent to the National Social Health Insurance Fund Bill.
January 1: Eight MPs boycott president Kibaki’s new year party after being denied access to him.
January 5: About 340000 KCPE graduates miss Form One places.
January 9: The Sudanese government and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army {SPLA/M} sign a peace agreement in Nairobi.