Kenya's new grand coalition government, sworn in this week to end a bloody political crisis that claimed over 1,500 lives, is just a "holding operation" that could still fail if deeper constitutional reforms are not enacted quickly, a top opposition party official said yesterday.
Peter Anyang Nyongo, secretary-general of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), warned on a Washington visit that the power-sharing deal with the ruling Party of National Unity is fragile and could still break apart.
"It's going to be a difficult marriage," Mr. Nyongo predicted in a briefing at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, "but the two partners have to put up with each other for the sake of the children. Once we have a new constitution, we may very well divorce."
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