Tuesday 8 February 2011

Kenya: Wikileaks Reveals Kibaki, Black Box

Nairobi — The US now claims that President Kibaki's inner circle, or what it calls the "black box", are the driving force behind the Lamu new port construction project.
The group has been holding meetings at State House Nairobi, according to US diplomatic cables released by the whistleblower website Wikileaks.
Other cables released suggest that Americans could be funding the local youth as part of a plot to break the old guard's grip on power.
According to diplomatic cables which the US ambassador Michael Ranneberger filed to Washington in January this year, Kenya originally held discussions with Qatar over the development of the Lamu port in return for a substantial allocation of farmland to the Qataris.
"Negotiations involving development of the Lamu port reportedly occur inside the "black box" of President Kibaki's inner circle at State House. We understand, however, that talks with Qatar are off, and that the Chinese are in play as a potential partner for the port development project and associated regional infrastructure (road and rail infrastructure to Southern Sudan and Ethiopia, and pipeline infrastructure to Southern Sudan and Uganda)," the cable reads.Read More

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