Nairobi
Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi’s attempt to choose a puppet successor backfired last week, and he may lose control of the country he’s ruled since 1978. Moi must step down next year because of a new term-limit law. For the December election, he hand-picked Uhuru Kenyatta—the son of Kenya’s founder, Jomo Kenyatta—to run as his party’s candidate and serve as his successor. But the younger Kenyatta is a political novice, and many in Moi’s ruling party refused to support him. Some even pledged to back the opposition candidate, respected statesman Mwai Kibaki. At a mass rally in the capital, Nairobi, last week, thousands of opposition supporters chanted, “Without Moi, anything is possible.”
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