Emilio Mwai Kibaki
President

(pronounced "ay-MEE-lee-oh em-WYE kee-BAH-kee")

"The Western world have in recent years applied double standards.…Here in Africa Kenya has always been called a stooge, an American stooge, a British stooge. And all of a sudden they abandon Kenya with all this talk of democracy and human rights…All around us we have military regimes and yet no one seems to protest about them…."

The Republic of Kenya is situated on Africa's east coast. It is bordered to the northeast by Somalia, to the north by Ethiopia, to the northwest by Sudan, to the west by Uganda, and to the south by Tanzania. The capital city is Nairobi. Kenya's total area is 582,646 sq km (224,960 sq mi). Because the northern part of the country is virtually without water, approximately 85% of Kenya's estimated 2002 population of 31 million people live in...