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Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) was established in 2008. Kenya's modern history has been marked not only by liberation struggles but also by ethnic conflicts, semi-despotic regimes, marginalization and political violence, including the 1982 attempted coup d'état, the Shifta War, and the 2007 post-election violence.
A Constitution of Kenya Review Act 2008 governs the review process and enters into force in December 2008. The Committee held extensive public consultations and received many dozens of submissions. November 2009 – The harmonised draft constitution written and proposed by the Committee of Experts was released on 17 November 2009 and had the ...
[99] [15] In reaction to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child decision, an amendment to the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act was passed in 2012. It allowed the Cabinet Secretary of Foreign Affairs to waive documentation requirements for stateless persons who had resided in Kenya prior to 1963, as long as ...
Jomo Kenyatta, First President of Kenya. Jomo Kenyatta became the Prime Minister of Kenya after the 1963 general election which resulted in the KANU being the dominant political party in Kenya. [6] As a result, the political tensions that had been present at previous Independence Conferences were absent at this final conference. [6]
This act followed the February 28, 2008, power-sharing agreement between current President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga, who became the first prime minister of Kenya since 1964, when the constitution of the newly created Republic abolished the office.
Under the new constitution, Kenya is now divided into 47 counties for administrative purposes. They are grouped below according to the former province they were separated from, with their areas and populations as of the 2009 [6] and the 2019 census: [7]
Passed in 1963, the Presidential Transition Act is a framework constructed to help support transitions between presidential administrations. It legally requires the current administration to map ...
To align the institution to the Kenya Vision 2030 requirements for public sector reforms in order to guarantee quality service delivery to citizens of Kenya, [7] [8] the Kenya School of Government Act No.9 of 2012 was passed in Kenya's parliament in year 2012 to transform the institute with a new mandate to build knowledge, competencies and skills in the public service through Training ...