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August 18, 2011

Women in the New Kenya

by Frieda Werden, WINGS, Canada - In December 2007, lethal ethnic violence broke out in Kenya, sparked by allegations of election fraud. After two months, a temporary power-sharing structure was put in place. Kenyan business ethics professor Dr. Rose Omondi Kisia describes the new constitution and radically changed government structure that have emerged from the coalition years, and how this could affect aspiring women politicians like herself in August 2012.

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