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  Profile of President Mwai Kibaki
President Mwai Kibaki was born on November 15th, 1931 in Gatuyaini Village, Othaya division, Nyeri, in the Central Province.
Mwai Kibaki went to Gatuyaini village school where he completed what was then called Sub "A" and sub "B" which is the equivalent of standard one and two.
Mwai Kibaki was sworn in as President on 30th December 2002 after winning in the preceding General Elections held on 27th December 2002.
www.statehousekenya.go.ke /presidents/kibaki/profile.htm   (845 words)

  
  Mwai Kibaki
Mwai Kibaki (born November 15, 1931) is Kenya's president, an economist, and a political leader.
Kibaki seems to have fallen out of favour in 1988, when he was dropped as Vice President and moved to the Ministry of Health.
On December 30, 2002, Mwai Kibaki was sworn in as the third President of Kenya.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mw/Mwai_Kibaki.html   (347 words)

  
 Art Matters.info :: flaunting arts and culture in Africa
Mwai Kibaki: Economist for Kenya is a great reading for children interested in historical writing to help shape their destiny from their heroes and heroines.
Mwai Kibaki: Economist for Kenya may not only provide a great role model for Kenyan children by showing how President Kibaki started out in a lowly village but is also easy to read and understand by readers in upper primary school.
Mwai Kibaki: Economist for Kenya is the eleventh book in Sasa Sema Publications' Lion Books: Junior Biographies for Africa series which presents to children stories of some of Kenya's heroes and heroines.
www.artmatters.info /?articleid=78   (656 words)

  
 CITATION ON HIS EXCELLENCY HON. MWAI KIBAKI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kibaki spent his early childhood assisting his parents in carrying out typical family chores, one of which was taking care of the family livestock, as a herd's boy.
Mwai Kibaki's belief in the urgent need to demystify centralised power and the unwarranted fettering of our public universities, started to became a reality upon his relinquishing the Chancellorship position to all public universities and seeing it fit to appoint others.
Mwai Kibaki for his undoubtedly outstanding academic record as a brilliant economist and financial manager who has stood this country in the best stead possible, an obvious source of pride for the academia, managers and other leaders of this country.
www.uonbi.ac.ke /citation/Kibaki/kibaki.htm   (1192 words)

  
 Kibaki Mwai - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Kibaki, Mwai (1931-), third President of Kenya (2002-).
Kibaki was born in Othaya, in Kenya’s Central Province.
Moi was succeeded by Mwai Kibaki, his former close supporter and minister of home affairs and finance.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Kibaki_Mwai.html   (86 words)

  
 africanfront.com (AUF)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
President Mwai Kibaki of the African Union's Constituent Republic of Kenya is calling for quickening the pace for the integration of Africa.
Mwai Kibaki, leader of a coalition of political groups called the National Rainbow Coalition [NARC] defeated Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya's first president Jomo Kenyatta and protege of outgoing president Daniel Kapkorios Toroitich arap Moi, to become Kenya's third president.
Mwai Kibaki was born in 1931 in the Kikuyu Community on the slopes of Mount Kenya.
www.africanfront.com /page400.php   (1483 words)

  
 AfricanTribute
Kibaki has also been dogged by his long 10-year tenure as Vice President to President Moi, and his subsequent portfolio as Minister for Health in the same administration.
Kibaki took a lot of heat for this from his opposition colleagues, who called him a coward for not helping them in their fight to repeal section 2(A) and raised suspicions as to his real intentions, having been a KANU insider for so long.
Kibaki remains a strong contender for the Presidency, going into the 2002 General Elections and it will be quite interesting to see how he fares in a field without the outgoing President Moi.
kenya740.tripod.com /kibaki.html   (987 words)

  
 CNN.com - Kibaki: 'Has-been' turned hero - Dec. 30, 2002
Kibaki has pledged to revive the economy and end Moi's patronage-based style, but critics say NARC represents only an illusion of change, and point out the many recent defectors from KANU that are now among its ranks.
Kibaki is a late convert to democracy, having once likened campaigners seeking to end the one-party system in the 1980s to daydreamers trying to fell a tree with a razor blade, Reuters news agency reported.
Educated at Uganda's Makerere University and the London School of Economics, Kibaki is known as an articulate and intelligent politician, with a penchant for witticisms in Swahili, English and Kikuyu, the language of his tribe, Reuters said.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/africa/12/29/kenya.kibaki.profile   (464 words)

  
 Mwai Kibaki was Sworn-in this Week_旺旺英语教学网
Mwai Kibaki was sworn-in this week as president of Kenya.
Mister Kibaki was the candidate of an alliance of opposition groups called the National Rainbow Coalition.
Mister Kibaki's main opponent in the election was Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta.
www.wwenglish.com /t/d/voaspec/2003/8/11140.htm   (463 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Kibaki takes over as Kenya president   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Mwai Kibaki took the oath of office as Kenya's third president from a wheelchair Monday as hundreds of thousands of his supporters roared their approval in a downtown park.
Mwai Kibaki and his wife, Lucy, celebrate after he was declared Kenya's new president.
Kibaki and his opposition alliance was swept into office three days earlier in general elections won for the first time by the political opposition.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-12-29-kenya-elections_x.htm   (620 words)

  
 Presidents of Kenya
Mwai Kibaki, Kenya's third president, was born on November 15, 1931 in Kenya's Central Province, one of 8 siblings.
Kibaki received his primary education in Gatuyaini village school, and moved to the boarding school of Mathari, where he learned carpentry and masonry.
The third time was the charm in 2002, as Kibaki won the popular election and was sworn in as Kenya's third president, defeating KANU for the first time in Kenya's history of independence.
www.personal.psu.edu /krj5002/presidents.htm   (973 words)

  
 The 2002 Kenya Elections
If Kibaki was indeed displeased with the outcome of the 1988 elections, he should have given the party a wide berth then, which would have earned him mileage as a politician out to correct the ills in his own party.
Kibaki, who was Minister for Health at the onset of multipartyism, had vowed that he would never opt out of the party he helped to found.
Kibaki, for all the time he has been in the opposition, has rarely been harassed or had his rallies dispersed by the police.
www.nationaudio.com /elections/moisuccession/MoiSuccession_Kibaki6.html   (1024 words)

  
 Kenya: Mwai Kibaki Named Presidential Candidate by Opposition - 2002-10-26
Kibaki, the real test is whether the coalition leaders will be able to agree on a single NARC candidate for every parliamentary constituency in the country.
Kibaki's greatest advantage is that he represents a change from the Moi regime, under which corruption has become rampant and the economy has collapsed.
Kibaki says he will also bring back the rule of law in Kenya, where public respect for the judiciary is at an all time low.
www.voanews.com /english/archive/2002-10/a-2002-10-26-25-Kenya.cfm   (881 words)

  
 Kibaki - Kenya - Worldpress.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kibaki beat Kenyatta’s son Uhuru by a landslide in the 2002 elections.
In 1979, after 10 years as a finance minister and one year as a vice president, Kibaki was demoted to the less glamorous Home Affairs Ministry and later transferred to the then-beleaguered Ministry of Health, from which he resigned in December 1991 amid rumors of a fallout with Moi.
Kibaki’s wife Lucy is the daughter of a clergyman.
www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=1023&dont=yes   (447 words)

  
 Mwai Kibaki - Encyclopedia.com
US rolls out red carpet for Kibaki: Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki was given the full red-carpet treatment during his visit to the United States.
A general without officers: president Mwai Kibaki is facing his most serious crisis since winning the elections in 2002.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki (C) walks along with the UN Environment...
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-KibakiMw.html   (638 words)

  
 Kibaki, Mwai - Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kibaki was educated at the prestigious Mangu High School in Thika and later Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda (1951-54), where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, History and Political Science.
Kibaki is a member of the Kenyan elite, a small core of well educated and affluent individuals who come from the rich and fertile Nyeri District in Kenya's Central Province.
Kibaki's privileged upbringing and distance from the lives of ordinary Kenyans is noted in the Kenyan media and often presented as a political weakness, although his ethnic links provide a wide support base.
people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/6256.html   (830 words)

  
 CNN - Moi's strongest challenger: Mwai Kibaki - December 28, 1997
Kibaki, a 66-year-old businessman, is considered the candidate with the most potential to unseat President Daniel arap Moi in Monday's election.
Kibaki's former association with a government widely accused of corruption could hurt him at the polls.
Kibaki has pledged to form a government with other opposition parties, but with such a fragmented vote, winning a clear majority will be difficult.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9712/28/kenya.candidate   (525 words)

  
 Kenya's 'great hope' tipped to win poll - smh.com.au
As Mr Kibaki's campaign thundered on, independent election observers on Monday accused officials of his opponents, the ruling KANU party, of buying up the voting papers of the poor with state funds in an effort to steal the poll.
Mr Kibaki, at 71, is the first politician in Kenya to be accorded pop hero status and his razzamatazz-filled campaign is the noisiest in living memory.
The President is obliged to step down by a 1991 constitutional amendment and Mr Kibaki is facing Mr Moi's handpicked choice of successor, Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya's founding president, the late Jomo Kenyatta, and accused by the opposition of being a Moi stooge.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/12/26/1040511135556.html   (575 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: New Leadership in Kenya -- December 30, 2002
Kibaki and his opposition alliance, called the National Rainbow Coalition, won a landslide victory with 63 percent of the vote, and a parliamentary majority.
Kibaki did, he and his colleagues, was to put together a broad coalition that united smaller position parties that previously lost Mr.
Kibaki's statements so far is that he has got the full agenda under control and has spoken very well today at his inauguration speech about what it will take: The rule of law, internal security and an efficient and lean bureaucracy.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/july-dec02/kenya_12-30.html   (2018 words)

  
 Headlines | Kibaki’s dramatic rise to power from a wheelchair
As the New Year dawns with President Kibaki facing his final 365-day stretch, it brings to mind the day he was sworn in on a wheel chair with broken left leg in a plaster, a dislocated shoulder in addition to a neck brace four years ago.
One close aide, who was close to the Kibaki at the time, recalls events at the JKIA that the public have never been made aware of.
In many ways, Kibaki’s sickness, being in and out of hospital, limping and using a cane occasionally, has greatly demystified the presidency, in contrast to previous years when, the president’s health was treated like classified state secret.
www.eastandard.net /hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143963206   (940 words)

  
 MWAI KIBAKI IS KENYA’S 3RD PRESIDENT
Mwai Kibaki), MPs and councilors in what has been internationally acknowledged as free and fair elections.
I could not however fail to note that he did not thank God for his victory nor did he acknowledge the outgoing president’s role in ensuring peace and stability in the nation at a time when neighbouring countries were ravaged by war and conflict.
President Mwai Kibaki also said that his government will work very hard to improve the lives of Kenyans by ensuring that the government became their servant and not vice versa.
www.ssmk.net /news_kibaki.htm   (761 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Mwai Kibaki elected Kenyan president   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Opposition leader Mwai Kibaki was on Sunday declared elected president of Kenya, electoral commission member Obuya Obuya told AFP.
Kibaki (71) was the presidential candidate for the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), which groups more than a dozen opposition parties.
"According to provisional results Kibaki is far ahead of Uhuru Kenyatta because we have already counted more than half of the results from the 210 constituencies and the remaining areas can not much change the outcome of the results," Obuya added.
iafrica.com /news/worldnews/198154.htm   (253 words)

  
 President Mwai Kibaki and Government of Kenya
President Mwai Kibaki now heads a country that is on fast track to a middle income status.
President Mwai Kibaki went to Mathari School (now Nyeri High School) between 1944 and 1946 were he also grew his own food as all students in the school were expected to do.
Mwai Kibaki was sworn in as Kenyan's 3rd President on 30th December 2002.
www.joinafrica.com /countries1/Kenya/government.htm   (607 words)

  
 Global Challenges | Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki To Establish, Chair Committee on HIV/AIDS - Kaisernetwork.org
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki yesterday said he will establish and chair a cabinet committee on HIV/AIDS as part of the government's "war" against the disease,
Kibaki said that the disease is "one of the biggest single challenges to development in our nation" and that the disease must be confronted before the country's economy would be able to prosper (
Kibaki urged the National AIDS Control Council to "re-energiz[e]" its work by involving all government ministries and by ensuring that education, drugs and counseling go to those who need them,
www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=16745   (266 words)

  
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Mwai Kibaki is in London for three days.
The Kenyan Society of Kenya group in London School of Economic and Political Science where Kibaki was a student from 1956 to 1959.
Kibaki replying a question from a student who was enquiring what DP had to offer in future.
www.misterseed.com /DAILYNEWS/Kibaki1.htm   (427 words)

  
 For Kenya's new leader, it's been a long road to the top | csmonitor.com
Kibaki, who is from Kenya's largest tribe, the Kikuyu, was born in 1931 in a rural coffee-producing village called Othaya.
Kibaki rose up through the KANU ranks during those early days, beginning as the volunteer executive officer and eventually becoming Kenya's longest-serving finance minister under the country's first president, Jomo Kenyatta.
Yesterday, Kenya's electoral commission announced Kibaki the winner with 63 percent of Friday's vote to 30 percent for Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya's first president (Moi was prohibited by the Constitution from running again.) Kibaki will be inaugurated Monday.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/1230/p06s01-woaf.html   (1097 words)

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