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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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08STATE104950A/S FRAZER'S SEPT 26 MEETING WITH ETHIOPIAN PM MELES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. AF Assistant Secretary Jendayi E. Frazer met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles September 26 on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A/S Frazer raised the need for African nations to urgently push the UN Security Council for a UN peacekeeping force in Soma [...]
2008-10-01 18:52:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO KE SO SU
08STATE111373DEMARCHE: COUNTER-PIRACY COOPERATION
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. OBJECTIVES ---------- 2. Department requests Post expand discussion with the Government of Kenya (GOK) on deepening cooperation with the United States to counter piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia. Post is request [...]
2008-10-18 23:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT MOPS PHSA PREL XA XW SO KE
08STATE113913TRAVEL WARNING - SOMALIA
[...] This Travel Warning updates information on the unsettled security situation and warns American citizens against travel to Somalia. This supersedes the Travel Warning of May 20, 2008. 2. The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against all travel to Somalia, including the self- proclaim [...]
2008-10-24 22:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC ASEC KPAO PTER PREL KE AF
08STATE11495TALKING POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 5 SYG BRIEFING ON HIS
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following points for the Security Council's February 5 briefing from Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on his recent trip to the AU Summit and Kenya Begin points: -- The United States thanks the Secretary-General for his very informative briefing on his vi [...]
2008-02-04 23:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG KE SO SU XA XW ZF
08STATE121032TRAVEL WARNING - KENYA
[...] The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Kenya. American citizens in Kenya and those considering travel to Kenya should evaluate their personal security situation in light of continuing threats from terrorism and the high rate of violent crime. This replace [...]
2008-11-14 15:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC ASEC KPAO PTER PREL KE
08STATE134960PROGRESS ON U.S. COUNTER-PIRACY AGENDA AT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The UN/Kenya International Conference on Piracy around Somalia was held in Nairobi, Kenya on December 10-11, 2008. The U.S. delegation was led by Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Mark Kimmitt, and included representatives from AF, L, Embassy Nairobi' [...]
2008-12-29 23:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT MOPS PHSA PREL KE SO XA XW
08STATE135268REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON KENYAN SEIZURE OF
[...] (U) This is an action request for Embassy Nairobi. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: According to Ref A, on 12 December 2008 Kenyan Flying Squad officers detained two individuals suspected of smuggling uranium into Kenya from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The men had been [...]
2008-12-30 21:37:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNKNNP MNUC ASEC KCRM PARM KE XA XW
08STATE18211TALKING POINTS FOR U/SYG HOLMES BRIEFING ON KENYA
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the February 25 briefing on Kenya to the Security Council by Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes. Begin points: -- We would like to thank Under Secretary General Holmes for this briefing today on h [...]
2008-02-22 22:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM KE XA XY
08STATE53566TRAVEL WARNING - SOMALIA
[...] This Travel Warning updates information on the unsettled security situation in Somalia and continues to urge American citizens not to travel to the country. This supersedes the Travel Warning of November 13, 2007. 2. The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against all travel to Somal [...]
2008-05-20 15:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC ASEC KPAO PTER AF PREL KE
08STATE66179SECRETARY RICE'S JUNE 18, 2008 CONVERSATION
[...] Classified by Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer for reason 1.4(d). 2. (U) June 18, 2008; 11:00 a.m.; Washington, DC. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger Rachel Meyers, AF/E Notet [...]
2008-06-19 18:34:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOVIP EAID PGOV PREL MOPS KE ZI ZU
08STATE90046SUDAN - SOUTHERN SUDAN TRADE DELEGATION: IF YOU
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 8. ----------- BACKGROUND ----------- 2. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended 21 years of civil war between Northern and Southern Sudan in January 2005. The United States continues its ardent support of the CPA, which calls fo [...]
2008-08-21 17:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID SU BEXP ECON EINV KE UG
08STATE90854TRAVEL WARNING - KENYA
[...] This Travel Warning is being issued to update U.S. citizens on safety and security conditions in Kenya. The temporary suspension of the United States Peace Corps program in Kenya has been lifted and volunteers have now returned to the country. The U.S. Department of State continues to reco [...]
2008-08-22 21:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC ASEC KPAO PTER PREL KE
08TASHKENT1476UZBEKISTAN: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATION OF AL-SHABAAB
[...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the U.S. designation of three members of al-Shabaab for supporting terrorism to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to inform appropriate parts of the Government of Uzbekistan. NORLA [...]
2008-12-18 11:23:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KE ET UZ
08THEHAGUE596NETHERLANDS/HORN OF AFRICA: FIVE MILLION EUROS IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-16 06:20:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PREL ER ET KE NL SO
08TOKYO95JAPAN PESSIMISTIC ABOUT SITUATION IN KENYA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-11 05:47:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL KE PGOV JA
08UNVIEVIENNA650UNODC PROJECT PROVIDES VEHICLE FOR PROMOTING LAW
[...] Piracy has been a growing topic of discussion within the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and among member states involved in that organization. Many major donor countries which received a December 5 briefing on potential UNODC activities in this field believe there is an appropriate and [...]
2008-12-11 13:32:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIEDUN AU KCRM UNODC RUEHZO UK TZ DJ YM SO KE
08UNVIEVIENNA659UNODC PROJECT PROVIDES VEHICLE FOR PROMOTING LAW
[...] Piracy has been a growing topic of discussion within the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and among member states involved in that organization. Many major donor countries which received a December 5 briefing on potential UNODC activities in this field believe there is an appropriate a [...]
2008-12-18 15:12:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCRM UNODC UN AU UK TZ DJ YM SO KE
08USUNNEWYORK106SYG BRIEFS UNSC ON KENYA, SUDAN, CHAD
[...] (C) Summary. Secretary-General Ban briefed the Security Council on February 5 on his recent trip to Africa. Ban reported on the critical nature of the situations in Kenya, Sudan, and Chad, highlighting recent progress in mediations in Kenya and in SOFA discussions with the Government of Sudan, [...]
2008-02-06 15:17:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM UNSC CD KE SO SU XA XW ZF
08USUNNEWYORK182U.N. U/SYG HOLMES BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON
[...] SUMMARY. On February 25 Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed the Security Council on his recent mission to Kenya and cautioned that the current situation is evolving into a protracted humanitarian crisis. Holmes stressed the need to address the root causes of [...]
2008-02-27 21:45:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF UNSC KE
09ABUDHABI732DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOOD CRISIS ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA, AND KENYA
[...] (U) Reftel demarche request for urgent food aid to Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya was delivered to the MFA without response on July 9. 2. (U) Ambassador delivered demarche points to UAE Red Crescent Chairman Mohammad al-Qamsi July 12. (Note: the UAE Red Crescent is one of several quasi-Go [...]
2009-07-20 09:12:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF PREL EAID ER SO ET KE AE
09ADDISABABA574KENYA: DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP CONDITIONS
[...] (U) Regional Refugee Coordinator (Refcoord) Inga Heemink and Refugee Program Officer Matt Austin visited Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya January 19-26 to review current conditions at the camp, discuss ongoing negotiations for additional land allocation, and monitor PRM-funded projects. Despite th [...]
2009-03-05 11:15:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PGOV EAID KE ET SO
09ALGIERS845ALGERIA: AFRICAN REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIOSAFETY
[...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points September 24 to Hamza Khelif, in the Security and Disarmament Division of the General Directorate of Political Affairs and International Security. Khelif said he would refer this matter to his superiors, but was fairly certain Algeria would participat [...]
2009-09-27 08:43:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE AG
09ASMARA134REFERRAL TO THE U.S. REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROGRAM
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Action request is in paragraph five. 2. (C) U.S. Embassy Asmara supports the referral of Mr. Mahari Tesfagergishfor to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for resettlmement in the United States based on his fear of persecution and based on USG interest in his s [...]
2009-04-27 14:43:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREF KE ER
09ASMARA266ARS PATRIOTIC WING DOWN TO ONE MEMBER IN ERITREA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff met with Mahad Yusuf, the self-proclaimed Inspector General of the ARS Patriotic Wing in Asmara. Mahad admitted that he was the last member of the wing in Asmara and that he would soon be leaving to seek the support of Somali diaspora business leaders in Dubai and Canada. [...]
2009-08-11 14:33:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PTER SO KE ER
09ASMARA2804,200 SOMALI REFUGEES IN MASSAWA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR Senior Protection Officer Zipporah Msagah met with PolOff to discuss the Somali refugee camp in Massawa. The camp currently hosts 4,800 registered refugees. Of this group, more than 600 refugees are suspected to be simply registering and moving through the camp to opportu [...]
2009-08-24 14:05:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV SO KE ER
09ASMARA340Eritrea Fraud Summary through August 2009
[...] The Eritrean government (GSE) continued its harsh economic policies, which further increased the scarcity of basic goods and the impoverishment its people. Grocery stores are thinly stocked; meat and fish are not always available, and basic commodities such as sugar, flour, cooking oil, coffee [...]
2009-10-01 14:05:00Embassy AsmaraUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC DJ ET ZA IL KE SD EG ER
09ATHENS1501GREEK RESPONSE ON URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED FOR HUMANITARIAN
[...] (SBU) DepEconCouns delivered reftel points on September 18 to Dr. Nike-Catherine Koutrakou, Director of Emergency Humanitarian and Food Aid Programs at Hellenic Aid (HA). On September 23, Dr. Koutrakou advised DepEconCouns that the GoG has made Ethiopia and Somalia two of its highest priority [...]
2009-09-23 15:10:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF EAGR ET KE SO EUN GR
09BAMAKO640MALI: DEMARCHE ON AFRICA REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON
[...] On October 1, Embassy delivered reftel demarche to the Chief of the Europe and America Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hamadou Albachir Toure, and to Colonel Amadou S. Gueye, Counselor in charge of Military Cooperation at the Ministry of Defense. Both Toure and Gueye indicated enthus [...]
2009-10-05 22:07:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC KE ML
09BANGKOK1718AMBASSADOR DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-16 07:26:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF DJ ER ET KE SO UG
09BEIJING1050 Kenyan Ambassador on Growing China
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-21 02:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ETRD PREL SENV CH KE
09BEIJING2814 U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U. S.
[...] (SBU) Summary: In mid-September, a request for technical consultation by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC),and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. HHS) experts working in China on 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) was made by Dr. WANG Yu, Director of the [...]
2009-10-06 23:24:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV TBIO SOCI CH GT KE EG TH KZ
09BEIJING2836PRC/AFRICA: KENYAN AMBASSADOR SEES PRACTICAL AID
[...] (C) Summary: While the United States and other Western countries focus on human rights and capacity building in Africa, China takes a more pragmatic and realistic approach to African aid, according to Kenya's Ambassador to the PRC. Kenyans feel that their positive attitudes toward the United [...]
2009-10-09 09:42:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID KDEM KE CH
09BEIJING527PRC LAUNCHES PR CAMPAIGN IN AFRICA
[...] (SBU) President Hu Jintao's February 10-17 trip to Africa capped a series of recent high-level visits intended to burnish China's image in Africa, according to Chinese and African contacts in Beijing. Our contacts contend that China is doing a great deal to assist Africa. At the same time, t [...]
2009-03-02 07:43:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID EINV ETRD AO CH KE MI ML MP
09BERLIN1467EUROPEANS TRACK U.S. ON EAST AFRICA BUT REMAIN
[...] (C) Summary: During a German MFA experts level meeting in Berlin to discuss the challenges facing East Africa, it was clear the Europeans saw eye to eye with the United States on most Horn issues but differed on the advisability of sanctions against Eritrea. We agreed Ethiopia's role in the region [...]
2009-11-18 09:20:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER PHSA SENV DJ ER ET GM KE SO
09BERLIN887GERMANS SHARE U.S. CONCERNS OVER HUMANITARIAN
[...] (SBU) Embassy Berlin A/DCM conveyed U.S. concerns over the urgent humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya to State Secretary Peter Ammon of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He urged Germany to join the United States in stepping up contributions to avoid a further deterioratio [...]
2009-07-22 16:12:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PREL PHUM PREF DJ ER ET GM KE SO
09BRUSSELS1359EU VIEWS ON KENYAN POLITICS AND DADAAB REFUGEE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU shares USG concerns about the political situation in Kenya and the Dadaab refugee camp complex. On both topics, there is a sense of urgency about the need to act to avert a coming crisis and that the window of opportunity for doing so is closing. POLOFF met with the Commi [...]
2009-10-09 11:46:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL KE UNHCR
09BUJUMBURA531THE ICGLR TAKES STOCK, AND SEEKS ITS NICHE
[...] (SBU) (Summary) The International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) is preparing a November 5-6 Roundtable and Summit in Bujumbura, to be preceded by a November 4 "Friends of ICGLR" for donor countries. At an October 3 preparatory meeting, ICGLR Ambassador Liberata Mulamula said t [...]
2009-10-06 06:18:00Embassy BujumburaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL BY CG KE RW TZ UG ZA
09BUJUMBURA549BURUNDI'S VIEW ON EAC TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) Post sources at Burundi's Ministry of East African Community Affairs provided the following assessment of the EAC's September 24-25 meeting in Kampala (reftel): A. (C) Kenya took charge of the negotiations. Rwanda and Uganda also asserted themselves, particularly in support of establi [...]
2009-10-08 06:08:00Embassy BujumburaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPINR KE TZ UG BY
09CAIRO1408EGYPT ON NILE RIGHTS AND THE NILE BASIN INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-21 14:31:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAGR ECON SU ET KE UG EG
09CAIRO1615NEXT STEPS ON THENILE BASIN INITIATIVE REF: CAIRO 1506 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-20 11:57:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL TSPL BY CG ET KE RW SU TZ UG EG
09CAIRO1844DEMARCHE GIVEN: PRE-INVITATION TO AFRICA REGIONAL WORKSHOP
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-24 13:33:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE EG
09CAIRO2355EGYPT UNSUCCESSFUL IN SWAYING UPSTREAM NILE BASIN COUNTRIES REF: A. CAIRO 1897 B. CAIRO 1506 C. CAIRO 1615 Classified By: Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Stephen P. O'Dowd for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-23 10:40:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID TZ KE ET SU EG
09COPENHAGEN431KENYA: DENMARK SUPPORTS U.S. ON AVERTING REFUGEE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-05 10:47:00Embassy CopenhagenUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL KE UNHCR DA
09COPENHAGEN491EMERGENCY AID TO HORN OF AFRICA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-05 08:14:00Embassy CopenhagenUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL ET KE SO DA
09DARESSALAAM286EAST AFRICAN COMMON MARKET: GRADUALISM IN ACTION
[...] The five East African Community (EAC) Heads of State, at a summit meeting April 29 in Arusha, announced a delay in the planned signing of the long-negotiated Common Market Protocol until their next summit in November 2009. The leaders' agreement on the final outstanding issues of the protocol [...]
2009-05-02 17:10:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV PREL TZ BY KE RW UG
09DARESSALAAM327SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ISAKSON AND CORKER
[...] (SBU) Your visit to Tanzania comes at a time when the country is gearing up for national elections in 2010, attempting to mitigate the effects of the global economic downturn, and continuing to deepen its relationship with development partners, particularly the United States. The 2010 election [...]
2009-05-21 03:10:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP ASEC AMGT AFIN PREL PGOV TZ KE RW SU IT XA
09DARESSALAAM350KIKWETE ON REGIONAL ISSUES WITH CODEL ISAKSON
[...] (C) Summary: Tanzanian President Kikwete, meeting with CDA and visiting Senators Isakson and Corker May 28, called for more active UN involvement in Somalia and expressed concern about the situation in Sudan. Kikwete criticized Kenyan leadership for its inattention to governing; conversely, he [...]
2009-06-01 05:26:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPREL TZ KE CG SO SU ZI
09DARESSALAAM428DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KIKWETE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Kikwete, meeting with Deputy Secretary Lew June 30 immediately before departing for the African Union meeting in Libya, expressed satisfaction with U.S. assistance programs, in particular MCC, PEPFAR, and PMI, and the U.S. approach to assistance. Kikwete described Tanz [...]
2009-07-06 05:02:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PREL TZ BY CG KE SO
09DARESSALAAM465Performing Arts Initiative Funding Report - 651 Arts in
[...] Embassy Dar es Salaam partnered with Embassy Nairobi on a Performing Arts Initiative (PAI) grant which funded three contemporary dancers and an arts manager from 651 Arts in New York, NY to give workshops and performances in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. The October 18 to 25, 2008 program reache [...]
2009-07-16 14:16:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OEXC SCUL KPAO KE TZ
09DJIBOUTI115GODJ FONMIN AGREES TO TRANSIT OF SUSPECTED PIRATES BY USG
[...] (C) Summary: Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahamoud Youssouf told Ambassador February 12 that the GODJ would accept to serve as a venue for transit of suspected pirates to Kenya for prosecution, provided that (1) onward transfer occur immediately, with minimal time on the ground in Djibouti, ( [...]
2009-02-13 13:04:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALMOPS KE DJ
09DJIBOUTI116FW: GODJ FONMIN AGREES TO TRANSIT OF SUSPECTED PIRATES BY
[...] (C) Summary: Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahamoud Youssouf told Ambassador February 12 that the GODJ would accept to serve as a venue for transit of suspected pirates to Kenya for prosecution, provided that (1) onward transfer occur immediately, with minimal time on the ground in Djibouti, ( [...]
2009-02-13 13:07:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALMOPS KE DJ
09DJIBOUTI1205DJIBOUTI REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR EASBRIG FTX
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Embassy Djibouti recommends provision of GPOI funds, or alternate sources of funding, in response to formal requests from Djibouti's Minister of Defense and chief of general staff, for assistance to support the East Africa Standby Brigade's Field Training Exercise (EASBRIG FTX),s [...]
2009-10-13 18:03:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS MOPS EAID DJ ET KE RW UG BY XA
09DJIBOUTI1387SUDAN PARTIES A NO-SHOW AT IGAD MINISTERIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-10 13:17:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL DJ ET KE SU
09DJIBOUTI1389SOMALIA: ETHIOPIAN FOREIGN MINISTER STRONGLY BACKS TFG AT
[...] (C) Summary: Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum strongly backed the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in both remarks made at the December 7 - 8 Djibouti IGAD ministerial, and in a December 7 meeting with AF Deputy Assistant Secretary Wycoff. Seyoum urged strong USG leadership on So [...]
2009-12-10 13:25:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV PTER KE SO ET DJ
09DJIBOUTI1391SOMALIA: KENYAN FOREIGN MINISTER PUSHES LOWER JUBA
[...] (C) Summary: During a December 8 meeting on the margins of the Djibouti IGAD ministerial visiting AF Deputy Assistant Secretary Wycoff and Kenyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Wetangula agreed to continue to work together to promote stability and political reconciliation in Somalia. DAS Wycoff [...]
2009-12-10 13:31:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV PTER KE SO ET DJ
09DJIBOUTI176SOMALI PIRACY: DJIBOUTI FOREIGN MINISTER REAFFIRMS
[...] (C) In a March 11 meeting with Ambassador and DCM, Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Youssouf and MFA Director of Bilateral Relations Mohamed Ali Hassan reaffirmed the Government of Djibouti's concurrence to allow the USG to transit suspected pirates by air, via Djibouti, en route to Kenya for prose [...]
2009-03-12 12:06:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHSA MOPS KJUS DJ SO KE
09DJIBOUTI743DJIBOUTI FONMIN URGES REVISED AMISOM MANDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-20 09:15:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS KPKO MASS DJ KE SO AU
09DOHA238ARAB LEAGUE BUDGET SUPPORT FOR SOMALIA'S TFG --
[...] (C) Ambassador met at the request of the Somalia Unit of Embassy Nairobi with Foreign Minister Omaar on April 1 on the margins of the Arab League Summit in Doha. 2. (C) FM Omaar said the Arab League's political and diplomatic support at the Summit was "firm and clear." But one or more Arab [...]
2009-04-02 15:52:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN SO KE QA
09KAMPALA1108UGANDA: AFRICA WORKSHOP ON BIOSAFETY AND SECURITY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-24 10:04:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE UG
09KAMPALA271STATE OF COUNTERTERRORISM IN UGANDA
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uganda (GoU) is a willing partner in the fight against terrorism and an important member of the East African Regional Security Initiative (EARSI). Uganda is responsive when terrorist threats are identified, but could improve its capabilities with better coordin [...]
2009-03-11 12:49:00Embassy KampalaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KE UG
09KHARTOUM1191BACKGROUND ON UNREST ALONG SOUTH SUDAN'S BORDER
[...] (sbu) During a meeting with Kenyan Ambassador Robert Ngesu on IGAD issues, Charge raised reported clashes between Sudanese Toposa, Kenyan Turkana and Kenyan security forces in the border area not far from Lokichoggio. Local press reports reported the death of 16 Kenyan soldiers in one recent [...]
2009-10-22 11:21:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALMARR PBTS PREL SOCI SU KE
09KHARTOUM881GOK/GOSS AGREE ON TIMETABLE FOR SECOND TANK
[...] (C) GOSS xxxxxxxxxxxx has admitted that, on the margins of the Washington "Forum for CPA Partners," he pressed Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula on the need to expedite delivery to South Sudan of tanks off-loaded from the MV Faina. Three months had passed since Nairobi initially agreed -- alb [...]
2009-07-29 14:42:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PINS PREL PINR EFIN KE MARR SU UNSC UG
09KUALALUMPUR780MALAYSIA: DONOR SUPPORT FOR ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA AND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-27 23:36:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ET EUN KE MY PREF SO
09KUWAIT682DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOK TO REVIEW REQUEST TO
[...] Following a July 9 meeting on another subject, A/DCM delivered points contained reftel to Salah Al-Mutairi, Counselor in MFA's Arab World Department, noting the urgent need for generous humanitarian assistance to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Al-Mutairi, wh [...]
2009-07-09 10:37:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID ER ET KE SO KU
09LONDON1635SOMALIA/HOA: UK MINISTERS REVIEWING POLICY
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Newly arrived Foreign Office East Africa and Great Lakes Director Jonathan Allen previewed July 14 for Poloff the discussions UK officials have teed up for ministers to have on Somalia at their July 21 Cabinet sub-committee on Africa meeting. Disrupting the al-Shabaab network [...]
2009-07-14 15:19:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EAID PHUM MCAP MASS PINR XW SO KE ER
09LONDON1642FOOD SECURITY: INCREASED SPENDING OVER NEXT THREE
[...] (SBU) Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Special Advisor on Development, Brendan Cox, informed Emboff July 7 that food security is a G8 priority for the Prime Minister and that the UK Government will be increasing its food security and agriculture assistance to USD 1.8 billion over the next three y [...]
2009-07-16 10:03:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF DJ ER ET KE SO UG UK
09LONDON1701SOMALIA/HOA: PDAS CARTER INFORMED THAT UK TO INCREASE SOMALIA ENGAGEMENT REF: LONDON 1635 Classified By: Acting Political Counselor Daniel McNicholas, reasons
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-24 13:11:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MASS PHUM PINR XW SO KE ER ET UK
09LONDON1886VIEWS ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FROM LONDON-BASED
[...] (SBU) Summary. London-based bank and development analysts are seeing positive signs emerging in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) economies, after months of negative news, but remain cautious in their near-term outlook for the region. While prospects for the global economy are improving and ther [...]
2009-08-13 16:13:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN KE LT NI SF UG UK XA ZA
09MADRID952DONOR SUPPORT FOR ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA, AND KENYA:
[...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Pablo Yuste, Head of the Department of Emergencies and Post-Conflict in the Office of Humanitarian Action in the Spanish Agency for International Development Aid (AECID). Yuste stated that Spain was aware of the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Ke [...]
2009-09-24 09:15:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR PREF ET SO KE SP
09NAIROBI100 UPDATE ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR FOR THE 2008 TDA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-16 06:33:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI KE
09NAIROBI1000A/S CARSON'S MEETING WITH MARTHA KARUA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 08:06:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1001A/S CARSON'S MEETING WITH SPEAKER MARENDE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 08:08:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1011A/S CARSON'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER RAILA ODINGA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-19 04:51:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1014GOK FORMS POLICE REFORM COMMISSION
[...] (C) On May 7 President Mwai Kibaki launched a Police Reform Commission (PRC) to review existing policies and structures of Kenya's police services and to make recommendations for appropriate institutional arrangements to oversee comprehensive police reforms. The PRC's terms of reference are [...]
2009-05-19 12:12:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM KDEM ASEC KE
09NAIROBI1030SOMALIA - DADAAB REFUGEES' VIEWS ON THE WAY FORWARD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-21 12:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1031SOMALIA - DADAAB REFUGEES' VIEWS ON THE WAY FORWARD
[...] (SBU) The residents of Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, home to more than 270,000 refugees, the vast majority of whom are Somali, were bitter about the last 18 years of disorder in Somalia but generally optimistic about rebuilding the country. However, the refugees were divided on the cause of the [...]
2009-05-21 12:44:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1032SOMALIA - OPPORTUNITIES FOR PD ENGAGEMENT WITH DADAAB
[...] (SBU) The residents of Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, home to more than 270,000 mostly Somali refugees, demonstrated a wide range of activities aimed at promoting peace and reconciliation among Somalis in Dadaab and in Somalia at large. These worthy projects certainly merit support, and offer gr [...]
2009-05-21 12:46:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1033SOMALIA - DADAAB REFUGEES' VIEWS ON U.S. POLICY
[...] (SBU) The residents of Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, home to more than 270,000 mostly Somali refugees, espoused a wide range of both positive and negative views on the U.S. government's involvement in Somalia. In general, most were grateful for U.S. aid to the camp, but many felt the United Sta [...]
2009-05-21 13:16:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1035SOMALIA - U.S. COOPERATION WITH KENYA TO STOP
[...] (S) In light of recent reports of foreign fighters joining al-Shabaab and other Islamist militias battling the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) we are providing the following update on our efforts to help the Government of Kenya (GOK) to curb fighters' travel to Somalia. While we [...]
2009-05-21 14:55:00Embassy NairobiSECRETPGOV PREL EAID PINS SO KE
09NAIROBI1036 KENYA ECONOMIC NOTES: MAY 2009
[...] Leading Indicators Suggest Negative Per Capita Growth 2. Kenya Tourism Shows Signs of Life 3. USG-Sponsored IPR Conference Raises Awareness 4. Export Processing Zones (EPZ) Fared Well in 2008 Â [...]
2009-05-22 07:51:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELAB ECPS EINV EFIN ETRD KIPR PINR KE
09NAIROBI1042DISPOSITION OF PIRATE SUSPECTS FROM M/V AMIRA
[...] (U) See para 3 for urgent action request. 2. (C) Post understands that dialogue may still be ongoing with the Governments of Greece and Egypt to determine if either nation is willing to receive and initiate legal proceedings against 17 suspected Somali pirates captured by the United States N [...]
2009-05-26 10:23:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPHSA KCRM KDEM PREL KE
09NAIROBI1055 US-GOK PROGRESS ON AGOA FORUM PREPARATIONS
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary: At the May 21 meeting of the AGOA Main Preparatory Committee, the Government of Kenya (GOK) accepted the changes to the US-Africa Ministerial Program as approved by Bureau of African Affairs Assistant Secretary Johnny Carson, an [...]
2009-05-28 13:36:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1056 US-GOK PROGRESS ON AGOA FORUM PREPARATIONS
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary: At the May 21 meeting of the AGOA Main Preparatory Committee, the Government of Kenya (GOK) accepted the changes to the US-Africa Ministerial Program as approved by Bureau of African Affairs Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, a [...]
2009-05-28 13:52:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1067 CONTINUED CLASHES WITH POLICE IN NAIROBI
[...] Summary: Recent days-long clashes between police and squatter mechanics in Nairobi have disrupted movement throughout the city. Police initially intervened in a property dispute but backed down as riots dragged into a fifth day, causing one death and more than twenty injuries. The inability o [...]
2009-05-29 10:46:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ASEC KCRM KE
09NAIROBI1077A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin, and the Ambassador met on May 12 with Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology Sally Kosgei. In a wide ranging conversation that [...]
2009-06-02 13:22:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR KE
09NAIROBI1078A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin met with the Speaker of the Kenyan Parliament, Peter Marende, on May 12. A/S Carson told Marende that his visit was meant to underscore the enormous [...]
2009-06-02 14:51:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM PINR PGOV KE
09NAIROBI1079A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH PM
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 12 meeting with Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin expressed deep concern over the lack of implementation of reforms in Kenya, and the dir [...]
2009-06-02 15:17:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM PINR PGOV KE
09NAIROBI108President Signs Communications Amendments Act
[...] (U) Summary: A recent political firestorm over the Kenya Communications Amendment Act of 2008 (the Act),while containing some trouble spots, in essence provided a positive opportunity in which Kenyans once again demonstrated their democratic credentials. President Mwai Kibaki signed the Act i [...]
2009-01-20 12:16:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPAO KMDR KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1080A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin met with President Mwai Kibaki and several high-ranking GOK officials on May 12. A/S Carson told Kibaki that his visit was meant to underscore the en [...]
2009-06-02 15:20:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM PINR PGOV KE
09NAIROBI1082A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin met with former Minister of Justice, National Cohesion, and Constitutional Affairs Martha Karua on May 12. A/S Carson explained the dual purposes of [...]
2009-06-03 04:17:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM PINR PGOV KE
09NAIROBI1083A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin met with Minister of Agriculture and senior Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader William Ruto on May 12. A/S Carson and Gavin expressed de [...]
2009-06-03 04:57:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1084A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 12 meeting with Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Finance Uhuru Kenyatta, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin expressed deep concern over political tensions in Kenya. [...]
2009-06-03 04:58:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1093 KENYA: VOTE FOR KOSOVO'S WORLD BANK MEMBERSHIP
[...] (SBU) ON June 3, the Government of Kenya submitted its votes (via email) in favor of Kosovo's World Bank membership. Copies of the ballots and the World Bank's confirmation of receipt have been forwarded via email to the Kosovo desk, Treasury, and the Kenya desk. Kenya previously voted in fa [...]
2009-06-03 12:55:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PREL KV KE
09NAIROBI1101KENYA: THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE
[...] (C) Summary. Kenya is poised at an historic transition point as the struggle between pro and anti-reform elements intensifies. This message discusses the dynamics of change underway in Kenya and its emerging, potentially positive, impact in exerting pressure on the leaders of the coalition g [...]
2009-06-03 14:35:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL KE PINR
09NAIROBI1102KENYA: POLICE REFORM
[...] (C) Summary. A combination of domestic-driven and international pressure, particularly from the U.S., may bring about some police reform by the fall. The recently-appointed Task Force on Police reform, which was initially greeted with skepticism, is led by a reputable former judge intent on p [...]
2009-06-03 14:35:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM ASEC PINS SOCI PINR KE
09NAIROBI1105SOMALIA - ON AND OFF FIGHTING IN MOGADISHU CONTINUES AMIDST
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to well-placed sources within and outside of the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG),on and off fighting continues in Mogadishu between TFG forces, al-Shabaab and other extremists, with the TFG making some gains in western areas of the city. A May 31 gai [...]
2009-06-04 05:36:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1106 Kenya and Piracy Prosecutions
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-04 05:37:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS PHSA KCRM ASEC PREL KE
09NAIROBI1113COALITION GOVERNMENT FINDS COMMON GROUND ON
[...] On June 3, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings Philip Alston presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council his final report on his recent visit to Kenya. The report concluded that extrajudicial killings by police were systematic, widespread, and carefully planned. It also dec [...]
2009-06-05 06:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1114 Madaraka Day Celebrations
[...] SUMMARY: On June 1 Kenyans celebrated their 46th anniversary of self-rule from the British Empire, with Prime Minister Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki jointly addressing a mixed crowd of supporters. In comparison to previous years a number of things were different about this year's "Ma [...]
2009-06-05 07:06:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KE
09NAIROBI1120KENYA PARTICIPATION IN AU SUMMIT JULY 1-3, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-05 09:36:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKSUM PREL KE
09NAIROBI1139 KENYA REAFFIRMS AGOA PROGRAM
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary: At the June 4 meeting of the AGOA Main Preparatory Committee, the Chair reaffirmed the Government of Kenya's (GOK) commitment to the US-Africa Ministerial Program and strongly discouraged any further changes. The GOK has schedu [...]
2009-06-09 10:35:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1167KENYA POLICE OVERVIEW: PART ONE
[...] (C) Summary: This cable is the first in a three-part series on the police in Kenya. This cable provides an overview of police structure and leadership, and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the main police agencies. Part two will summarize our recent and planned engagement with and assi [...]
2009-06-11 09:17:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KJUS ASEC KCRM KE
09NAIROBI1168KEY PARLIAMENTARIAN PESSIMISTIC ON REFORMS, SEEKS
[...] (C) Poloff met on June 2 with Dr. Boni Khalwale, the Chair of the Kenyan Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC),a key watchdog committee. Khalwale has used his position as a bully pulpit, asking tough questions of the Grand Coalition government and gaining a measure of popularity in t [...]
2009-06-11 11:54:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1171A PORTRAIT OF AL-SHABAAB RECRUITMENT IN KENYA
[...] (C//REL TO USA, KEN, GBR//) There are a number of factors that make Kenya a fruitful source for recruiting young men to join such extremist groups as the Somalia-based al-Shabaab militia. While we have been focused on Nairobi's Eastleigh suburb and the North East Province as particular areas o [...]
2009-06-11 14:31:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL SOCI PGOV KE SO
09NAIROBI1172KENYA POLICE OVERVIEW, PART TWO: U.S. ASSISTANCE
[...] Summary: This cable is the second in a three-part series on the Kenyan police forces. This cable summarizes our recent and planned engagement with and assistance to Kenyan law enforcement agencies. Part three will discuss challenges facing those agencies, progress to date on police reform, and [...]
2009-06-11 14:37:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM KJUS PGOV KE
09NAIROBI1183KENYA POLICE OVERVIEW, PART THREE: THE WAY FORWARD
[...] (U) Summary: This cable is the third in a three-part series on the police in Kenya. Part one provided an overview of police structure and leadership, and assessed the strengths and weaknesses of the main police agencies. Part two summarized our current assistance to Kenyan law enforcement agen [...]
2009-06-12 10:18:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALASEC KCRM KJUS PGOV PHUM KE
09NAIROBI1200GOVERNMENT OF KENYA SUPPORTS ETHIOPIA'S GIBE III
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to John Rao Nyaoro, the director of the Bureau of Water Resources in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Kenya is convinced that Ethiopia's proposed Gibe III hydroelectric run-of-the-river project on the lower Omo River will not harm Lake Turkana and may, in fact, e [...]
2009-06-15 11:49:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG PBTS EINV SOCI ECON KE
09NAIROBI12102009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS
[...] (U) The U.S. Mission in Kenya is aware of one (1) outstanding claim of a United States business interest against a branch of the Government of Kenya (GOK). 2. (U) Background: In the mid-1990s, Claimant A entered into a partnership with a Kenyan public university ("the university"),via a [...]
2009-06-15 14:51:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIDE EINV OPIC CASC PGOV KE
09NAIROBI1238ISIOLO'S SECURITY PROBLEM, PART I
[...] (SBU) Isiolo District lies in Kenya's geographic center and since colonial times the area has been a crossroads and settling place for people from all over northern Kenya. Pressure from an increasing population, decreasing water supply, and recurrent drought make competition over scarce resour [...]
2009-06-18 12:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAGR PHUM PGOV SENV SOCI KCRM KE
09NAIROBI1245KENYAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON PIRACY
[...] (U) This is an action message; request at para 4. 2. (U) The Deputy Chief of Mission delivered ref A and B talking points and nonpapers to Beatrice Karago, Principal State Counsel for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government's primary point of contact on piracy issues, on June 19. [...]
2009-06-22 14:11:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL KE
09NAIROBI1255 NAIROBI REQUESTS RESTRICTED TDY TRAVEL DURING AGOA FORUM
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Nairobi will be on minimize for TDY travel during the period July 20 - August 10, 2009 in the lead-up to and through the AGOA Forum. Between July 20 - August 10, U.S. Mission Nairobi will not be granting country clearances for TDY person [...]
2009-06-23 08:56:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA ECON ETRD AGOA KE
09NAIROBI1256COALITION AGREES ON NEW MEMBERSHIP OF
[...] On June 17 Parliament finally agreed on new membership to 27 parliamentary committees. The decision had been held up by a conflict between the main coalition parties, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and the Party of National Unity (PNU),over each party's share of membership and the le [...]
2009-06-23 09:47:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1257 Pandemic Influenza Task Force/EAC Reviews Pandemic
[...] (U) Summary. In light of June 11 decision by WHO to raise the global pandemic alert to Phase 6, Nairobi's Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Task Force/EAC, on June 16, reviewed its pandemic influenza tripwires and response. Given that the H1N1 strain is proving, thus far, to be less virulent th [...]
2009-06-23 11:10:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU ASEC AMGT CASC KE
09NAIROBI1259ISIOLO'S SECURITY PROBLEM, PART 3
[...] (SBU) Cycles of violence centered on livestock raiding are a sad reality in Isiolo District, which lies in Kenya's geographic center. Population, social, and environmental pressures as well as ineffective (sometimes damaging) government efforts to address them tend to intensify conflict. 2 [...]
2009-06-23 14:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAGR PHUM PGOV SENV SOCI KCRM KE
09NAIROBI1263SPEAKER MARENDE TO VISIT U.S. JULY 12-18
[...] This is an action cable; see paragraph 4. 2. Post has learned that the Speaker of the Kenyan Parliament, Kenneth Marende, will visit Washington DC from July 12-18. The Speaker will be traveling with delegation of four Kenyan parliamentarians on a visit sponsored by the United States Hous [...]
2009-06-24 10:31:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1266 Ambassador's Remarks upon receiving Honorary Doctorate
[...] On May 29 Africa Nazarene University awarded the Ambassador an honorary doctorate for his efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. The Ambassador used the occasion for public outreach in support of the reform agenda and reconciliation efforts. 2. Begin text of remarks. I accept this [...]
2009-06-24 13:58:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
09NAIROBI1267THE REFORM AGENDA IN KENYA: STATUS OF
[...] (C) Summary. This message provides an update on the reform agenda. There is little indication that the coalition government leadership is moving towards implementation of far-reaching reforms. Establishment of a Special Tribunal is problematic. While the Task Force on Police Reform is cred [...]
2009-06-24 13:59:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR KE
09NAIROBI1268KENYA, IRENA, AND CLEAN ENERGY INITIATIVES
[...] Per reftels, post informed Kenyan Ministry of Energy Senior Deputy Secretary for Administration Paul Ngatia on June 24 that the United States welcomes the formation of the International Renewal Energy Agency (IRENA) and is considering signing the IRENA Statute at the June 28-30 consultative me [...]
2009-06-24 14:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KGHG SENV ECON ETRD EFIN KE
09NAIROBI1278 KENYA AGOA PREPARATIONS INTENSIFY
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary: At the June 18 meeting of the AGOA Main Preparatory Committee, the Government of Kenya (GOK) confirmed there would be no changes to the US-Africa Ministerial Program contrary to the suggested changes of the African diplomatic co [...]
2009-06-25 15:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1293THE REFORM AGENDA - KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON KIBAKI
[...] (C) The reform agenda will only be implemented if President Kibaki and PM Odinga exert strong leadership to make this happen. We must continue to make clear to them the importance the U.S. at the highest levels attaches to this (which complements domestic-driven pressure for reform). I recen [...]
2009-06-26 10:47:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1295 The Reform Agenda - Energizing Youth and Public Support
[...] Summary. The Ambassador and members of the Mission team used a late May visit to Eldoret and Kisumu to support grassroots youth organizations to press peacefully for implementation of the reform agenda, and to energize other public support for this. The three-day trip included inauguration of [...]
2009-06-26 12:11:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1296UHURU KENYATTA - PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS AND THE
[...] (C) Uhuru Kenyatta appears to be working towards a presidential run in 2012. While many have pointed out that replacing President Kibaki, a Kikuyu, by another Kikuyu, would be unlikely due to anti-Kikuyu sentiments prevalent across much of Kenyan society, Kenyatta may be encouraged to attempt [...]
2009-06-26 12:13:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1299U.S. REACTS TO THREATENING LETTERS TO MEMBERS OF
[...] (SBU) A Member of Parliament (MP) on June 18 claimed in Parliament that he had received a letter implicating the First Lady of Kenya and high GOK officials in a plot to kill him and seven others, including one former and three current MPs. The presidential press service and the police spokes [...]
2009-06-29 06:56:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1320KOFI ANNAN ON THE REFORM AGENDA
[...] (C) Kofi Annann recently called me to review the state of play with respect to the reform agenda. He wanted to touch base before two coalition representatives visit him in Geneva July 2 (Minister of Justice Mutula Kilonzo and Minister of Lands James Orengo). 2. (C) Annan said he recently sp [...]
2009-06-29 12:53:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKE PGOV PREL
09NAIROBI1321COORDINATION WITH THE EU AND UK ON KENYA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-29 12:59:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1322PRIME MINISTER ODINGA ON THE REFORM PROCESS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-29 13:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKE PGOV PREL
09NAIROBI133EMBASSY NAIROBI CONCURRENCE FOR FY09 HORN OF
[...] (U) Embassy Nairobi has reviewed and supports S/CT's proposal to provide training in Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Counterinsurgency Operations to Kenya to help the Kenyan government build its capacity to perform these operations in an effective manner that respects human rights. Missi [...]
2009-01-27 05:29:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER SO KE
09NAIROBI1344KOFI ANNAN ON THE REFORM AGENDA
[...] (SBU) Kofi Annann recently called me to review the state of play with respect to the reform agenda. He wanted to touch base before two coalition representatives visit him in Geneva July 2 (Minister of Justice Mutula Kilonzo and Minister of Lands James Orengo). 2. (SBU) Annan said he recently [...]
2009-07-01 07:48:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1345PRIME MINISTER ODINGA ON THE REFORM PROCESS
[...] (SBU) Summary. On June 26 I met with the Prime Minister Odinga to review the status of implementation of the reform agenda, and to urge more rapid action. Odinga said that he and President Kibaki have improved coordination to push the reform agenda. He sketched out an ambitious timeline for c [...]
2009-07-01 07:48:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1346COORDINATION WITH THE EU AND UK ON KENYA
[...] (SBU) I met with the UK Ambassador, the Canadian Ambassador, and representatives of key EU member states to promote our coordination to push the reform agenda. The meeting was part of periodic ongoing coordination efforts. Coordination also occurs through the Donor Consulative Group, which rema [...]
2009-07-01 07:49:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1398President's Cairo Speech -- Adding Zest to Muslim Outreach
[...] Summary. Muslim outreach has been one of the Mission's priorities. Reaching out to Muslim academies in Nairobi and regular contact work in Kenya's Muslim areas -- the coast and northeast particularly -- has been central to the Mission's public diplomacy efforts. The Embassy amplified the imp [...]
2009-07-07 05:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KPAO KMDR KE
09NAIROBI1424JULY 4 RECEPTION USED TO PUSH REFORM AGENDA AND ADDRESS
[...] Consistent with Washington guidance, the Mission held a scaled back reception on July 2 to mark Independence Day. We used the reception to focus on three urgent issues in Kenya: the need to accelerate implementation of the reform agenda, the importance of promoting national reconciliation, an [...]
2009-07-07 11:50:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL ECON KE
09NAIROBI1428SOMALIA - Writers Program's Somali Outreach
[...] Four American writers conducted an extremely successful outreach visit to Somali youth during an ECA- and University of Iowa's International Writers Program-sponsored June 9-18 trip to Kenya. While they also did Kenya-specific programming on the same trip, this message highlights the outreach t [...]
2009-07-07 13:24:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PREF KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI1433POSITIVE REACTION TO A/S CARSON'S JULY 4 PRESS
[...] Summary: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson held a press conference for international, Somali and Kenyan press in Nairobi on July 4. Most of the questions focused on current events and U.S. policy in Somalia, although A/S Carson also spent considerable time discussing goo [...]
2009-07-07 16:39:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDGH DJ ET KDEM KE KPAO PREL SO
09NAIROBI1437 KENYA - LONG RAINS FAILURE IN SOUTHEASTERN
[...] A USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) visit to Mwingi District in Kenya?s Eastern Province confirms that poor performance of the 2009 long rains, rising staple food prices, and declining livestock terms of trade are significantly disrupting food security and agro-pas [...]
2009-07-08 12:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EAGR TBIO SOCI PHUM PREL KE
09NAIROBI1448 KENYA - LONG RAINS FAILURE IN SOUTHEASTERN
[...] A USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) visit to Mwingi District in Kenya?s Eastern Province confirms that poor performance of the 2009 long rains, rising staple food prices, and declining livestock terms of trade are significantly disrupting food security and agro-pas [...]
2009-07-09 08:32:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EAGR TBIO SOCI PHUM PREL KE
09NAIROBI1449 KENYA - LONG RAINS FAILURE IN SOUTHEASTERN
[...] A USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) visit to Mwingi District in Kenya?s Eastern Province confirms that poor performance of the 2009 long rains, rising staple food prices, and declining livestock terms of trade are significantly disrupting food security and agro-pas [...]
2009-07-09 08:33:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EAGR TBIO SOCI PHUM PREL KE
09NAIROBI1450 KENYA - LONG RAINS FAILURE IN SOUTHEASTERN
[...] A USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) visit to Mwingi District in Kenya?s Eastern Province confirms that poor performance of the 2009 long rains, rising staple food prices, and declining livestock terms of trade are significantly disrupting food security and agro-pas [...]
2009-07-09 08:34:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EAGR TBIO SOCI PHUM PREL KE
09NAIROBI1471KOFI ANNAN TURNS OVER NAMES OF POST-ELECTION
[...] (U) On July 9 Kofi Annan, Chair of the AU Panel of Eminent Personalities, handed over to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) the names of high-level organizers and financiers of Kenya's 2007/8 post-election violence and the evidence against them found by the Waki Commissio [...]
2009-07-10 09:56:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1496 KENYA - LONG RAINS FAILURE IN SOUTHEASTERN
[...] A USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) visit to Mwingi District in Kenya?s Eastern Province confirms that poor performance of the 2009 long rains, rising staple food prices, and declining livestock terms of trade are significantly disrupting food security and agro-pas [...]
2009-07-14 06:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EAGR TBIO SOCI PHUM PREL KE
09NAIROBI1504Somalis and Kenyans React Positively to President's Speech
[...] The Somalia Unit and Kenya Public Affairs Section co-hosted an event in Nairobi on July 11 at which Somali and Kenyan guests viewed President Obama's speech to the Ghanaian Parliament. We followed the President's speech with a panel discussion chaired by the Acting DCM/Consul General, the Econ [...]
2009-07-14 12:07:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KDEM PREL SOCI SO KE
09NAIROBI1547 HUMANITARIAN IMPLICATIONS OF DELAYED USG
[...] USG humanitarian funds for assistance to Somalia are frozen at a critical time when humanitarian conditions are deteriorating, humanitarian funding is not keeping pace with rising needs, and donors forecast decreased funding on the horizon. Lack of resolution within the USG regarding funding [...]
2009-07-20 13:48:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EAGR TBIO SOCI PHUM PREL KE
09NAIROBI1567COAST POLICE SHOOTING HIGHLIGHTS TENSIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The bold daytime shooting of two senior Administration Police (AP) inspectors by two Kenya Police Service (KPS) officers in Mombasa has escalated tensions between the two police services and their commanders, and has also highlighted the extent to which drug trafficking and drug a [...]
2009-07-22 07:12:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM SNAR KE
09NAIROBI1599SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary: Welcome to Kenya. Your visit comes at a time when Kenya,s progress on critical reforms is not moving quickly enough, and when the country continues to struggle with the social, political, and economic aftermath of the crisis following the disputed December 2007 general elections. [...]
2009-07-27 12:14:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ETRD OVIP OTRA KE
09NAIROBI1616SOMALIA - Report from Dadaab: Women's Bleak Reality
[...] Summary: While Dadaab's 287,000 refugees are all suffering from tremendously overstretched resources and services, women are disproportionately affected by the difficult conditions and daily challenges of camp life. The most pressing issues identified by the women and girls in Dadaab include [...]
2009-07-28 07:57:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SOCI KWMN KE SO
09NAIROBI1652POLICE REFORM TASK FORCE FACES CHALLENGING MANDATE
[...] Summary: The Police Reform Task Force (PRTF),chaired by retired Justice Philip Ransley, has been working since early June to develop a comprehesive set of recommendations on much-needed police reforms. The Task Force held public hearings in Nairobi on July 22 and 23, after first interviewing [...]
2009-07-30 08:13:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KJUS PGOV PHUM KE
09NAIROBI1653GTIP HOTLINE DATA FOR KENYA
[...] (U) In response to reftel, below please find the requested information regarding Kenya's Trafficking In Persons hotlines: Country: Kenya Local Number: 116 Alternate Numbers: 020 203 4498 / 0732 263 554 / 0724 555 251 Organization Operating the Hotline: Child Line Kenya (Non-Governmental Org [...]
2009-07-30 09:39:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP PHUM PGOV KE
09NAIROBI1658Coalition Government Still Punting on Special Tribunal
[...] (C) Summary: On July 30 President Kibaki issued a statement which once again failed to take a forthright and credible position with respect to accountability for post-election violence. Although the statement does not preclude establishment of a Special Tribunal (and specifically indicates the [...]
2009-07-31 10:03:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KJUS PHUM KE
09NAIROBI1676RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE
[...] On July 7, Post's Kenya U.S. Liaison Office (KUSLO) confirmed with the Deputy of Operations for the Kenyan Navy Lieutenant Colonel Milongo that the reftel machine guns had been received and are located at the Kenyan naval headquarters in Mombasa, Kenya. 2. The machine guns are scheduled to b [...]
2009-08-04 13:26:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC KE
09NAIROBI1711KENYA: CONTINUED CONTROVERSY REGARDING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the Committee of Experts on the Constitution works to navigate contentious issues such as the system of government and administrative and/or financial devolution as they draft a proposed constitution, a recently formed Christian lobby has resurrected a long-running debate reg [...]
2009-08-13 04:10:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV PHUM KE
09NAIROBI1725KENYA: DEBATE RAGES OVER SPECIAL TRIBUNAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In late July, Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Mutula Kilonzo presented the GOK cabinet with a draft bill to establish a special tribunal to prosecute suspects linked to the post-election violence. After a bitter debate, the cabinet rejected both the establishment o [...]
2009-08-17 04:10:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1730PAY DEAL ENDS TWO-DAY STRIKE AT KENYA AIRWAYS
[...] Demanding a 130% pay raise, employees at Kenya Airways (KQ) went on strike August 14-15. The strike delayed or canceled roughly 90% of KQ's flights, significantly disrupting both domestic and international travel out of east Africa's busiest hub. Civil aviation contacts expect KQ to have wor [...]
2009-08-18 04:13:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON ASEC PTER KCRM KE
09NAIROBI1772009 AGOA FORUM UPDATE
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary. The Government of Kenya (GOK) continues to plan for the upcoming 2009 AGOA Forum scheduled for Nairobi the week of August 3, 2009. The GOK has proposed August 4-6 as the specific dates within that week for the three-day affair. [...]
2009-02-03 08:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1770Pastoralists Gather for Peace in Maikona
[...] Kenya's upper Eastern province continues to be caught in a cycle of inter-tribal violence driven by competition for scarce resources. Two of the opposing groups, the Borana and Gabra, are closely related communities that speak the same language and intermingle along the Kenyan-Ethiopian borde [...]
2009-08-20 12:57:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PBTS EAID KCRM KE ET
09NAIROBI1801SOMALIA - CODEL MARSHALL SCENESETTER: HOW
[...] (S//NF) Summary: U.S. Embassy Nairobi warmly welcomes CODEL Marshall and looks forward to your September 1-3 visit. We note your questions regarding media reports that pressure in Iraq/Afghanistan has prompted al-Qa,ida to shift some of its operations/efforts to Somalia (ref A). To address this [...]
2009-08-26 05:36:00Embassy NairobiSECRETPTER MOPS PINR OREP KE SO AF IZ
09NAIROBI1811Pushing the Reform Process - Follow-up to the Secretary's
[...] (S/NF) Summary. In the wake of the Secretary's high impact visit, we are moving quickly to sustain pressure for implementation of the reform agenda. In concert with Washington, we are engaging intensively with key political leaders, while working to energize civil society, the private sector, [...]
2009-08-26 12:36:00Embassy NairobiSECRETPREL PGOV KDEM US KE
09NAIROBI1829VISAS DONKEY: CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA DENIAL
[...] (C) Embassy is seeking a security advisory opinion under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA),Proclamation 7750, precluding the entry into the United States of Henry Kiprono Kosgey and his family. Kosgey was born in Nandi district, Rift Valley Province, Kenya on July 14, 194 [...]
2009-09-01 08:58:00Embassy NairobiSECRETCVIS KCOR KCRM PGOV PREL ECON KE
09NAIROBI1830VISAS DONKEY: CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA REVOCATION
[...] (C) Embassy is seeking a security advisory opinion under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Proclamation 7750, suspending the entry into the United States of Amos Sitswila Wako and members of his family. Wako was born in Kakamega, Western Province, Kenya on July 31, 1945. Post [...]
2009-09-01 10:09:00Embassy NairobiSECRETCVIS KCOR KCRM PGOV PREL ECON KE
09NAIROBI1839INVITATION TO FIRST EAST AFRICA REGIONAL STRATEGIC
[...] (U) We are pleased to invite your mission to send up to two working level officers responsible for cuonterterrorism to the first East Africa Regional Strategic Initiative Action Officers meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on September 29, 2009. Participants will join in discussions to identify priori [...]
2009-09-02 11:19:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE PGOV PREL PTER
09NAIROBI1846CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW CHAIR CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador recently met with Nzamba Kitonga, Chairman of the Committee of Experts on the Constitution, to discuss the current status of the constitutional review process. Acutely aware that his committee is working under intense political and public scrutiny, Kitonga is never [...]
2009-09-02 14:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KJUS KE
09NAIROBI1855KENYA: BY-ELECTIONS FIRST TEST FOR IIEC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 27 the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) held two by-elections for vacant parliamentary seats. The elections in Bomachoge (Nyanza Province) and Shinyalu (Western Province) were an important first test of the IIEC's capacity to organize an election and cu [...]
2009-09-04 08:10:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM PGOV KCOR KE
09NAIROBI1859KENYA: AMID CONTROVERSY KIBAKI REAPPOINTS
[...] (C) On August 31, President Kibaki appointed Justice Aaron Ringera to a second five-year term as Director of the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC). The immediate response from the KACC Advisory Board, reformist elements, Parliament, civil society, and ordinary Kenyans was strongly neg [...]
2009-09-04 12:38:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKCOR ECON PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1885KENYA BACK TO THE FUTURE: CHARTERHOUSE BANK LOOKS
[...] (C) Ambassador met with Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Njuguna Ndung'u at the latter's request on September 2. Ndung'u provided Ambassador with a heads-up that Charterhouse Bank (reftel a),which has been closed by order of the Ministry of Finance and supervised by the CBK for the last [...]
2009-09-08 14:09:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KCRM KE PGOV PREF KCOR
09NAIROBI1886POLICE COMMISSIONER OUSTED, POTENTIAL OPENING FOR REFORM
[...] (C) Summary: On September 8, the Office of the President announced the reassignment of former Police Commissioner Mohammed Hussein Ali and new appointments in a number of senior positions within the Kenya Police Service (KPS),effective immediately. We have long advocated for the removal of Al [...]
2009-09-09 04:13:00Embassy NairobiSECRETASEC KJUS KCRM PGOV PTER KE
09NAIROBI1925PARLIAMENT SETTING KEY PRECEDENTS IN FIGHT OVER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Bolstered by new Standing Orders and an articulate, independent Speaker, Parliament's attempts to nullify the reappointment of Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission Director Aaron Ringera have established several key precedents which strengthen Parliament's independence and ability to [...]
2009-09-14 14:03:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL KCOR KE
09NAIROBI1935 DEMARCHE: UNGA FOOD SECURITY EVENT CO-HOSTED BY THE
[...] We delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk on September 14. On September 15, we followed up with contacts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to push for the PM's participation at the event. Ministry contacts said they are currently working on the PM's sched [...]
2009-09-15 14:32:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD EAGR KE
09NAIROBI1938VISAS DONKEY: CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA DENIAL
[...] (C) Embassy is seeking a security advisory opinion under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Proclamation 7750, suspending the entry into the United States of Aaron Gitonga Ringera and members of his family. Ringera was born in Meru, Kenya on June 20, 1950. Post strongly believes [...]
2009-09-16 09:24:00Embassy NairobiSECRETCVIS ECON KCRM KE PGOV PREL KCOR
09NAIROBI22009 INCSR
[...] Following please find Kenya's submission for the 2009 INCSR: 2. QUOTE: KENYA I. Summary Kenya remains a significant transit country for cocaine and heroin bound for Europe and the United States. Quantities of heroin and hashish transiting Kenya, mostly from Southwest Asia bound for Eu [...]
2009-01-02 07:38:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM SOCI PGOV KE
09NAIROBI2005PARLIAMENT ON RECESS AFTER CENSURING RINGERA AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a contentious late night session on September 16, Parliament passed a motion declaring as null and void President's reappointment of Aaron Ringera as the director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission. Parliament also adopted the report of the Mau Forest Task Force, se [...]
2009-09-23 14:19:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PREL KCOR PGOV KE
09NAIROBI2016KENYA THREATENS END TO PIRACY PROSECUTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 12, the Kenya Attorney General (AG),Amos Wako, presented opening remarks at the Kenya prosecutors' convention in Mombasa, and touted the Department of Public Prosecutions' (DPP) progress under his leadership. He listed a dozen specialized units that had been forme [...]
2009-09-24 14:29:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KJUS PHSA KCOR PGOV KE IT
09NAIROBI2024A "STEP BACKWARD" ON LAND IN DADAAB
[...] Summary. This is an action request. See paragraph 7. The Government of Kenya (GOK) has yet to authorize the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to construct a fourth refugee camp in Dadaab to relieve severe overcrowding. UNHCR Africa Region Head George Okoth-Obbo said the de [...]
2009-09-25 10:08:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE OPDC PGOV PREF PREL
09NAIROBI2027AMBASSADOR ANNOUNCES STEPS TO PRESS FOR REFORM
[...] (U) Summary. This message reports steps announced to increase pressure for implementation of the reform agenda. End summary. 2. (SBU) As instructed by Washington, on September 24, the Ambassador announced three USG steps to increase pressure for implementation of the reform agenda. Firs [...]
2009-09-28 08:11:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM ECON KCOR KE CVIS KPAO KMDR
09NAIROBI2029 HORN OF AFRICA EL NINO REGIONAL
[...] The recently concluded Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in East Africa Climate Outlook Forum confirmed the presence of the El Nino weather phenomenon in the greater Horn of Africa region. El Nino conditions are expected to result in normal to above-normal rainfall during the [...]
2009-09-28 08:50:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI2063FRIENDS OF EASBRIG DISCUSS UPCOMING FTX
[...] SUMMARY: The East African Standby Brigade (EASBRIG) is preparing to conduct its first Field Training Exercise (FTX) in November. While much has been done to prepare for the exercise, in which approximately 1,300 soldiers from 10 of EASBRIG's member states plan to participate, logistical challen [...]
2009-09-29 14:02:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNMARR MASS MCAP PREL KE XW
09NAIROBI2081KENYA FY 2010 DISASTER REDECLARATION.
[...] An estimated 3.8 million drought-affected individuals require emergency food assistance in Kenya, according to the joint Government of Kenya (GOK),U.N., and non-governmental organization (NGO) Kenya Food Security Steering Group (KFSSG). The poor performance of the February to June long rain [...]
2009-10-01 08:02:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI2083KENYA - 2010 HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANNING
[...] On September 23 and 24, the Kenya U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) organized the 2010 Kenya Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan (EHRP) workshop to asses current and projected countrywide humanitarian conditions to inform the development of the 2010 EHRP schedul [...]
2009-10-01 12:21:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI209PRESIDENT SUPPORTS COORDINATION CENTER ON PIRACY
[...] During the Ambassador's meeting with President Kibaki on January 27, the President expressed strong interest in having a coordination center established in Kenya as a "headquarters unit" for the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP). Post understands the concept of a coordination center was ad [...]
2009-02-06 05:13:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHSA PGOV KE SO
09NAIROBI2093KIBAKI THE KEY TO DADAAB
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Nairobi has consistently engaged senior Government of Kenya (GOK) officials and members of the international community to resolve severe overcrowding in the Dadaab refugee camps (Reftels C-N). Since last October, the Ambassador has repeatedly brought to the attention o [...]
2009-10-02 11:29:00Embassy NairobiSECRETKE PREF PREL
09NAIROBI2133ISIOLO SECURITY UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kenya's ongoing drought has exacerbated tribal and political tensions between pastoralists in Kenya's Isiolo District. The situation recently presented problems for the tourism industry in Kenya's northern corridor when armed livestock herders moved into wildlife conservation lan [...]
2009-10-08 04:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINS EAID EIND PHUM SENV KCRM KE
09NAIROBI2140SOMALIA - KENYAN FOREIGN MINISTER PULSES
[...] (C) Summary: Kenyan Foreign Minister Wetangula on October 8 convened EU representatives and the U.S. for what he said was an informal discussion of Somalia. Wetangula stressed several times that the GOK believed there was no alternative to the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG),but ackn [...]
2009-10-08 15:12:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID MOPS PTER SO KE
09NAIROBI2141SOMALIS IN KENYA BEING RECRUITED TO FIGHT IN
[...] (C) Summary: Reports from the Garissa Member of Parliament (MP) and UNHCR officials that Government of Kenya (GOK) officials and Somalis aligned with the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) are supporting the recruitment of Kenyan-Somalis in North East Province and Somali refugees from the [...]
2009-10-09 06:00:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNKE MARR MOPS PINR PREF PREL PTER SO
09NAIROBI2169UPDATE ON RECRUITMENT OF KENYAN SOMALIS TO FIGHT
[...] (C) On October 9, Garissa town's Member of Parliament Aden Duale told PolOff that during a second conversation with Kenyan Minister of Defense and fellow Kenyan Somali Mohamed Yusuf Haji, Haji not only told him that Somalis were recruiting young men in Kenya to fight in support of the Transiti [...]
2009-10-15 10:00:00Embassy NairobiSECRETMARR MOPS PINR PREF PREL PTER KE SO
09NAIROBI2203SOMALIA - TFG PRESIDENT ON RECRUITMENT IN KENYA
[...] (C) Summary: TFG President Sheikh Sharif met with the Ambassador and Somalia Unit as he ended his travels to Saudia Arabia, the United States and Libya. President Sharif told us he recognized the need for a vigorous political strategy to complement his security forces' efforts to seize the [...]
2009-10-21 12:26:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAID PTER SO KE
09NAIROBI2206RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-21 12:37:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC KE UK
09NAIROBI2245USAID/OFDA and USAID/FFP Marsabit, Isiolo, and
[...] (U) From October 5 to 10, USAID's Offices of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) staff visited Laikipia District, Rift Valley Province, and Isiolo and Marsabit districts, Eastern Province, to assess reports of food insecurity associated with poor perfo [...]
2009-10-28 05:27:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI2252MINISTER MAPS OUT POLICE REFORM AGENDA
[...] (C) Summary: Following the removal of former Police Commissioner Ali and a major reshuffle in the senior ranks of the Kenya Police Service (see ref A),Ambassador Ranneberger, accompanied by a mission team, called on Minister of State for Internal Security and Provincial Administration George [...]
2009-10-29 11:43:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV KCRM KCOR KJUS KE
09NAIROBI2287REFORM CAUCUS LAUNCHED IN PARLIAMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following a luncheon with Assistant Secretary (A/S) Johnnie Carson and an American Chamber of Commerce-hosted breakfast attended by Ambassador Ranneberger, an initial 17 Members of Parliament have launched a "Reform Caucus." The Reform Caucus, which may be recognized as an offic [...]
2009-11-03 08:06:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM KE
09NAIROBI2338PUSHING REFORMS: THE NATIONAL YOUTH FORUM AND
[...] (C) Summary. Sixty-six independent youth organizations across the country are planning, with our support and encouragement, to hold a National Youth Forum on November 17 to focus on the reform agenda and national reconciliation. The government feels threatened by such independent activity ) pa [...]
2009-11-10 14:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PREL PGOV KE
09NAIROBI2339THE REFORM PROCESS: ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER PRESSURE
[...] (C) Summary. The visa ban we issued against Attorney General Amos Wako, who is a linchpin in the culture of impunity, has contributed to a groundswell of pressure for his removal. We are hearing that his days may be numbered. His departure will be a significant symbolic step in pushing for ch [...]
2009-11-10 14:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV KCOR PREL KE
09NAIROBI2340THE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW PROCESS AND THE REFORM
[...] (C) Summary. Meaningful constitutional review is vital to successful implementation of the reform agenda and to mitigate prospects for violence and instability in connection with the 2012 elections. While there is broad appreciation of this, President Kibaki, Prime Minister Odinga and their t [...]
2009-11-10 14:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI2342Ambassador's Speech on the Reform Process
[...] Summary. On October 30 the Ambassador gave the keynote speech at the Law Society of Kenya's luncheon. The speech, which was cleared by Washington, focused on the reform process. The speech was extensively covered by the media, was distributed to thousands of key actors through the Mission da [...]
2009-11-12 06:12:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL US KE
09NAIROBI2349African Elephant Conservation Fund - Monitoring of
[...] "Monitoring of African Elephants along the North Kenyan Coast" by Save the Elephants 2. Greater Ewaso Elephant Conservation by the Mpala Research Center  [...]
2009-11-12 13:02:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL US KE
09NAIROBI2360USAID/OFDA COAST PROVINCE FLOODS ASSESSMENT
[...] (U) According to the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS),heavy rains from late October to early November resulted in flooding in Malindi, Magarini, Kwale, Kilifi, Mombasa, and Tana Delta districts, Coast Province, killing at least four people and displacing more than 1,000 households. In respons [...]
2009-11-16 11:09:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI2361A/S SCHWARTZ DISCUSSES FOOD AID IN SOMALIA WITH WFP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PRM Assistant Secretary (A/S) Eric Schwartz met with World Food Program (WFP) Somalia, based in Nairobi, to seek clarification on how food aid is delivered in Somalia and the potential ramifications on WFP operations if the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) restrictions are n [...]
2009-11-16 14:21:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALEAID KE PREF PREL SO
09NAIROBI2364GOK BORDER MANAGEMENT SUPPORTS REQUESTED IN RETURN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 21, PRM Assistant Secretary (A/S) Eric Schwartz and Ambassador Ranneberger met with three senior government of Kenya (GOK) officials (Director General of National Security Intelligence Services Michael Gichangi, Minister of Immigration Otieno Kajwang, and Minister of [...]
2009-11-17 08:06:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKE PREF PREL SO
09NAIROBI2369POLICE REFORM TASK FORCE PREVIEWS ITS
[...] On November 11, three members of the Police Reform Task Force (PRTF) briefed members of the diplomatic corps on the Task Force's unanimous recommendations to the Government of Kenya. Carrying an estimated price tag of 81.4 billion Kenyan shillings (approximately $1.1 billion) over the next th [...]
2009-11-18 11:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KJUS PGOV PHUM KE
09NAIROBI2376 Pushing the Reform Process - Continued Outreach to the
[...] Summary. As part of continued outreach activities, the Ambassador and a Mission team visited Eldoret, Kitale, and Kapenguria in Rift Valley November 13-14 to promote peace reconciliation and conflict resolution, and to encourage domestic-driven pressure for implementation of the reform agenda. [...]
2009-11-19 12:22:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
09NAIROBI2383EAST AFRICA REGIONAL COUNTER TERRORISM OFFICERS
[...] (U) Counterterrorism action offices from nine East African posts plus the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) the USAID and the Office of the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT) met in Nairobi, Kenya on September 29 for in depth discussion [...]
2009-11-20 09:44:00Embassy NairobiSECRETPREL PGOV ER ET KE SU TZ UG YM PTER DJ
09NAIROBI2387 ENTRY OF ARMS FOR SECURITY PROTECTING U.S. FLAG VESSELS
[...] Ref A requests procedures to transport firearms, ammunition, and related equipment into air and seaports in Kenya. As indicated in Ref B, U.S. flag vessels wishing to do so should contract with a freight forwarder which will navigate the Kenyan bureaucracy on their behalf. U.S. flag ships sh [...]
2009-11-23 07:23:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT KPIR ASEC MARR PARM PREL KE
09NAIROBI2401POLICE REFORM ADDITIONAL RESOURCES REQUEST
[...] Summary: This cable is an action request. Please see para 5. Following high-level discussions with the leadership of Kenya's law enforcement agencies (see ref B) and our review of the Police Reform Task Force's recommendations (see ref A),post's inter-agency team on police reform has identifi [...]
2009-11-25 04:14:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KJUS KCRM EAID PGOV KE
09NAIROBI2405S/WCI RAPP'S VISIT PUSHES ACCOUNTABILITY ISSUE
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Rapp's November 5-6 visit highlighted in a timely way the importance the U.S. attaches to accountability for post-election violence, as part of the broader reform agenda. Amb Rapp stressed the need for Kenyan authorities to cooperate to apprehend Rwandan fugitive Kabug [...]
2009-11-25 08:03:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KE US
09NAIROBI2408 KENYA: CHINA DRILLING FOR OIL IN ISIOLO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is drilling for oil in the Isiolo region of Kenya. Kenya won't realistically know until January 2010 if they have struck a commercially viable deposit. To date, oil exploration in Kenya has been unsuccessful. Kenya has no o [...]
2009-11-25 11:18:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD ENRG SENV KE
09NAIROBI2410 Outreach to Propel the Reform Process
[...] Summary. This message summarizes recent travel throughout Kenya as part of continuing and intensified outreach efforts aimed at encouraging domestic-driven peaceful pressure for implementation of the reform agenda. End summary. 2. The Mission remains engaged in intense outreach to all regi [...]
2009-11-25 11:22:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI2412 KENYA: NOVEMBER ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
[...] IMF APPLAUDS KENYA'S NEW INFLATION CALCULATION 2. EVICTIONS PROCEED IN MAU FOREST 3. KENYA SIGNS COMMON MARKET TREATY Â [...]
2009-11-25 12:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON EINV ETRD PINR KCOR SENV KE
09NAIROBI2422SOMALIA - Recent Threats to Freedom of the Press
[...] (SBU) Since the temporary ban of VOA's Somali Service by Puntland authorities in early October (reftel),Somali media have encountered a series of additional hardships. Independent media outlets have experienced closures, arrests, and violence. Among the most notable incidents was the shootin [...]
2009-11-30 11:12:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO SO KE
09NAIROBI2429 KENYA'S NOMINEES AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PLAN FOR THE
[...] Ms. Summaiya Athman, Legal Manager, Sitara Investment Ms. Athman holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Commercial Law from the University of Bristol United Kingdom. She is the head of the legal department of a State-owned oil corporation which is engaged in both the Petroleum upstream (explorati [...]
2009-12-01 11:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID PREL SOCI KE
09NAIROBI2434DOING MORE WITH LESS; UK AFRICA REGIONAL
[...] (U) Summary: The State Department coordinator for the East Africa Regional Strategic Initiative (EARSI) met with UK officers from several North and East Africa missions as well as London based Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) specialists in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia October 13-14 for discussions o [...]
2009-12-02 07:00:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV ER ET KE SO UK YM
09NAIROBI2443KENYAN RECRUITMENT FOR SOMALIA CONTINUES,
[...] (S/NF) As the fight for control over Somalia's Kismayo and Lower Juba region drags on, the Government of Kenya appears determined to send 2,000-4,000 newly trained recruits into Somalia, reportedly in December. Recent discussions indicate that many if not most of these recruits are in fact Ken [...]
2009-12-03 09:22:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNMARR MOPS PINR PREL PTER KE SO
09NAIROBI2465 PREPARATIONS FOR AFRICA REGIONAL UNSCR 1540 WORKSHOP ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-08 09:02:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE
09NAIROBI2477Former Members of Congress engage the Reform Agenda
[...] (U) Summary: From November 23 to 28, Embassy Nairobi hosted Kenya's first-ever "EXDEL," a delegation of former Members of Congress who spent a week representing the Congressional House Democracy Partnership as they engaged political leaders and civil society to advance the reform agenda. End S [...]
2009-12-10 13:14:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL OTRA OVIP OREP KDEM KE
09NAIROBI2483Annan Visits to Maintain Pressure on Reform Agenda
[...] Summary: Kofi Annan's December 2-8 visit usefully maintained pressure, publicly and privately, for implementation of the reform agenda. He is remaining engaged, and plans to return to Kenya next March. He sees the United States as his key partner in pressing on the reforms, and I am contin [...]
2009-12-14 14:05:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KE PGOV
09NAIROBI2485National Youth Forum Pushes on the Reform Agenda
[...] Summary. On November 17 a National Youth Forum was held in Nairobi with U.S. financial support. The Forum was organized by 66 independent youth organizations and brought together representatives from every constituency in the country. The fact that the coalition government at the highest l [...]
2009-12-15 13:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV KE
09NAIROBI2487Kenya's Conventional Arms End-User Violation
[...] Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense Vicki Huddleston and Kenya-U.S. Liaison Office Chief Col. McNevin delivered reftel demarche regarding transfer of Ukrainian-origin LME by the government of Kenya (GOK) to the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) to Kenyan Assistant Minister for Defe [...]
2009-12-15 16:23:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNMARR MCAP MOPS PARM PINR PREL PTER MASS KE SU UG UP
09NAIROBI2497Kenya responds to Sudan tank demarche
[...] On December 15, Ambassador Ranneberger discussed the tank transfer issue with Prime Minister Odinga, who said that the GOK was committed to assisting the GOSS and that there was "intense pressure" from the GOSS to deliver the tanks. He hinted that the GOK might instead transfer the tanks to Uganda [...]
2009-12-16 14:15:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNMARR MCAP MOPS MASS PARM PINR PTER PREL KE UG UP SU
09NAIROBI2514Draft Constitution Includes Powerful Prime Minister,
[...] Summary: The Harmonized Draft Constitution proposes significant changes to executive powers, installs accountability mechanisms throughout government, ushers in a new house of parliament, reshapes the judiciary, and devolves power and some budgetary control to local governments. The document s [...]
2009-12-10 13:58:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KISL KDEM PHUM KE
09NAIROBI2521PREPARATIONS FOR AFRICA REGIONAL UNSCR 1540 WORKSHOP ON
[...] This is an action message. Please see paras. 14 and 15. 2. Summary: Officials from the Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) visited Nairobi November 16-19 to perform a site survey in preparation for the Afr [...]
2009-12-21 20:09:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE
09NAIROBI2522Civil Society Delegation to Washington
[...] This is an Action request, see para 4. 2. We remain actively engaged with civil society, business groups, women's associations, religious leaders, and youth as part of our continuing efforts to advance the process of reform in Kenya. On November 17 we sponsored a highly successful nat [...]
2009-12-11 10:10:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
09NAIROBI2531Constitutional Debate 2 - PNU seeks Strong Presidency,
[...] (U) Summary. This cable is part two of a five part series on the contentious issues and political landscape surrounding the debate on Kenya's Harmonized Draft Constitution. Cable one provided a snapshot of the outstanding contentious issues in the draft constitution: executive authority, devo [...]
2009-12-22 14:41:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KJUS KE
09NAIROBI2533Constitutional Debate 3: ODM Defending Current Draft
[...] Summary: This cable is part three of a five part series on the contentious issues and political landscape surrounding the debate on Kenya's Harmonized Draft Constitution. Cable one provided a snapshot of the outstanding contentious issues in the draft constitution: executive authority, devolu [...]
2009-12-22 14:47:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS KDEM KE
09NAIROBI2535Security Sector Assistance in Kenya: Navy Special Boat Unit
[...] Due to the threat of spillover effects from fighting in Somalia, the Government of Kenya views effective border control as its top national security concern. Using multiple funding sources, including 1206 funding, the United States' security sector assistance in Kenya supports the development o [...]
2009-12-22 14:50:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALMASS MOPS MARR KE SO EAID
09NAIROBI2539Constitutional Debate 4: Prospects for Compromise
[...] (C) Summary: This cable is part four of a five part series on the contentious issues and political landscape surrounding the debate on Kenya's Harmonized Draft Constitution. Cable one provided a snapshot of the outstanding contentious issues in the draft constitution: executive authority, dev [...]
2009-12-23 13:29:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI255 Kenya's Developing Food Crisis
[...] (SBU) A shortfall of white maize (Kenya's staple food crop) has left an estimated 3.2 million Kenyans in need of emergency food assistance. Millions more - particularly in urban areas - are food insecure due to rising maize prices. The forces contributing to the shortfall include: reduced pr [...]
2009-02-11 09:19:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ETRD EAID BEXP PINR PGOV KE
09NAIROBI2586Ambassador's Letter to GOK on Expanding US Support to
[...] Ambassador Ranneberger sent the following letter on December 8 to the Kenyan Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security Professor George Saitoti. The letter was a follow-up to the conversation PRM Assistant Secretary Eric Schwartz and the Ambassador had with Mi [...]
2009-12-15 13:54:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF SO KE PREL
09NAIROBI2592KENYA: FIBER CUTS UNDERMINE GROWTH OF ICT SECTOR
[...] SUMMARY: Fiber cuts are degrading the potentially positive impact of the new broadband Internet connections in Kenya. Kenya Data Networks (KDN),the country's largest private data carrier and infrastructure provider, has experienced 153 fiber cuts in the last three months. KDN suspects that [...]
2009-12-16 09:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV ECPS ETRD AMTC AADP ACOA ANET KE XW
09NAIROBI2594COLLECTIVE DEMARCHE TO PRESIDENT KIBAKI ON DADAAB
[...] During the visit of PRM Assistant Secretary Eric Schwartz to Kenya on October 17 - 22, the donor community agreed to a collective demarche urging President Kibaki to authorize the opening of a fourth Dadaab camp (09 Nairobi 2363). Ten Ambassadors signed a joint letter which was sent to P [...]
2009-12-17 06:33:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF KE SO
09NAIROBI2598EU Troika Pushes on Kenya Reform
[...] Summary: Gunilla Carlsson, Sweden's Minister for International Development Cooperation, headed an EU Troika one-day visit to Kenya to push for reform. Carlsson pushed on the need for implementation of the reform agenda, urged greater political will on the part of the government to engage on r [...]
2009-12-17 13:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KE SW WEU
09NAIROBI2628GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVE: KENYA COMMENT
[...] Post appreciates the opportunity to comment on goals and principles of President Obama?s Global Health Initiative. As stated, individual government agencies involved in defining practices, implementation, and governance have been actively involved in discussions (e.g. HHS/CDC, USAID, STATE),[...]
2009-12-21 05:29:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KHIV KWMN KOCI KE
09NAIROBI2640Kenya's Media: Part I - Overview and the New Media Law
[...] (SBU) Summary. This is the first part of a four-part report on the state of the Kenyan Media. The parts are: 1) Overview and the new media law; 2) Radio Stations; 3) Media Houses and Cross Ownership; and 4) Role of the media and New Trends. Since the liberalization of the media industry in [...]
2009-12-21 11:28:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPRC KPAO KMDR KE
09NAIROBI2642Judges Protest Proposed Constitutional Changes, Call for
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 12. 2. Summary: Kenyan judges, long unpopular with citizens due to their status as the public face of the country's backlogged and inefficient justice system, are finding few sympathizers with their concern that provisions in the draft constit [...]
2009-12-21 11:54:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCOR KE KJUS
09NAIROBI2644KENYA: 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism
[...] Al-Shabaab extremists, supported by members of al-Qa'ida, continued to present a serious terrorist threat to American and allied interests throughout the Horn of Africa. Due to ongoing fighting between al-Shabaab, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG),and other armed factions within [...]
2009-12-21 12:36:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC PREL KE SO
09NAIROBI2646Kenya's Media: Part II - FM Radio Stations
[...] (U)Summary. This is the second part of a four-part report on the state of the Kenyan Media. The parts are: 1) Overview and the new media law; 2) Radio Stations; 3) Media Houses and Cross Ownership; and 4) Role of the media and New Trends. The 90s liberalization of the broadcast industry co [...]
2009-12-21 12:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPRC KPAO KMDR KE
09NAIROBI2656Kenya's Media: Part III- Media Houses and Cross Ownership
[...] (U) Summary. This is the third part of a four-part report on the state of the Kenyan Media. The parts are: 1) Overview and the new media law; 2) Radio Stations; 3) Media Houses and Cross Ownership; and 4) Role of the media and New Trends. A handful of media houses dominate and even manipula [...]
2009-12-22 10:20:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPRC KPAO KMDR KE
09NAIROBI2662Kenya's Media: Part IV - Role of the Media and New Trends
[...] (U) Summary. This is the last part of a four-part report on the state of the Kenyan Media. The parts are: 1) Overview and the new media law; 2) Radio Stations; 3) Media Houses and Cross Ownership; and 4) Role of the media and New Trends. The rapid growth of media outlets in Kenya has set a [...]
2009-12-22 13:37:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPRC KPAO KMDR KE
09NAIROBI2664KENYA: FORWARD THINKING TO NEGATE "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION"
[...] (U) Summary: This message is a response to an action request in Ref A, and provides post input for Kenya to the Secretary's "Defamation of Religion" working group. Although Kenya has strong domestic incentives to oppose "defamation of religions" resolutions, the influence of African Union, G- [...]
2009-12-22 13:57:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC KE
09NAIROBI2666Constitutional Debate 1: A Primer on the Contentious Issues
[...] (U) Summary: This cable is part one of a five part series on the contentious issues and political landscape surrounding the debate on Kenya's Harmonized Draft Constitution. This cable provides a snapshot of the outstanding contentious issues in the draft constitution: executive authority, devo [...]
2009-12-22 14:08:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KJUS PREL KE
09NAIROBI267GOK COMMITS TO FOURTH DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP
[...] During his recent visit, UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner (DHC) Craig Johnstone told the Ambassador that he had received a "commitment" from the Kenyan Prime Minister to a package approach to resolving Somali refugee issues - including the allocation of land for a fourth camp - to relieve severe [...]
2009-02-11 11:45:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SO
09NAIROBI2702HUMAN RIGHTS TRENDS IN KENYA PERTAINING TO SEXUAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Same sex relationships in Kenya are criminalized as felonies, and individuals in such relationships face strong public attitudes which stigmatize lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) relationships as "un-African" and "against the order of nature." However, the Kenyan go [...]
2009-12-31 06:20:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM KE HURI PHUM
09NAIROBI2706Civil Society Activists Spend Christmas in Jail
[...] (SBU) Police arrested twenty-two members of Bunge la Mwananchi (The "People's Parliament" in Swahili) on December 24, 2009. The Bunge members were holding a peaceful demonstration to call for the resignation of Minister of Education Sam Ongeri, who has been implicated in a recent scandal invo [...]
2009-12-31 10:12:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PHUM KE
09NAIROBI279 KOFI ANNAN PRESS STATEMENT ON PARLIAMENT'S FAILURE
[...] Kenya's Parliament on February 12 rejected a constitutional amendment to establish a Special Tribunal to try perpetrators, organizers, and financiers of the post- election violence that occurred in the wake of Kenya's botched 2007 general elections (Septel). Creation of a Special Tribunal wa [...]
2009-02-13 09:19:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG SENV SOCI KE
09NAIROBI284 A National Forum Discusses the Reform Process
[...] The coalition government sponsored a conference called "One Kenya, One Dream: The Kenya We Want" from February 4-6 as a forum to discuss the issues which surfaced during the post-electoral violence, and the coalition's reform agenda to address these. The Ambassador as asked to present a keyno [...]
2009-02-17 13:27:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KE
09NAIROBI285AMBASSADOR'S "THE KENYA WE WANT" REMARKS
[...] As reported Septel, the coalition government sponsored a conference called "One Kenya, One Dream: The Kenya We Want" from February 4-6 as a forum to discuss the issues which surfaced during the post-electoral violence, and the coalition's reform agenda to address these. The Ambassador was ask [...]
2009-02-17 13:38:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI308AMBASSADOR REQUESTS PERSONAL INTERVENTION OF
[...] Following the Ambassador's meeting with the UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner (DHC) on February 5 (Reftel),the Ambassador sent the following letter to the Kenyan Prime Minister on February 18 urging the PM's personal intervention in implementing the package of activities agreed with the UNHCR DH [...]
2009-02-19 14:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE PGOV PREF PREL SO
09NAIROBI325KENYA CONSIDERS USG PREFERENCE FOR 2009 AGOA FORUM FORMAT
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary. After informing Kenya's 2009 AGOA Forum preparatory committee members February 12 that the USG prefers keeping the forum's standing format, rather than moving private sector events to the opening day, August 4, ECON/C soothed di [...]
2009-02-20 08:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI342IRANIAN PRESIDENT VISITS KENYA
[...] (U) Iranian President Ahmadinejad arrives in Kenya on February 24th at the head of a delegation of over 100 government officials and private businessmen. Ahmadinejad's visit follows a flurry of reciprocal visits between high level Kenyan officials and their Iranian counterparts over the past [...]
2009-02-23 13:24:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON ENRG EPET ETRD IR KE PINR PREL EINV
09NAIROBI344SOMALIA - ENCOURAGING KENYAN ENGAGEMENT
[...] (U) Summary: Kenya is increasingly concerned about Somali instability spilling over its border and affecting its share of Indian Ocean trade. The Government of Kenya is seeking ways to help stabilize Somalia, cooperate on counter-piracy, and improve the plight of Somali refugees in Kenya. [...]
2009-02-23 14:11:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EWWT KE PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SO
09NAIROBI354OVERCROWDING BIGGEST PROBLEM IN KENYAN PRISONS
[...] Summary: In late January, poloff joined a delegation from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to visit three Nairobi-area prisons. UNODC is considering allocating some funding to assist the Kenya Prisons Service (KPS) in improving prison conditions. KPS officials seemed quite open in show [...]
2009-02-25 06:48:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KCRM KJUS KE
09NAIROBI356OVERCROWDING BIGGEST PROBLEM IN KENYAN PRISONS
[...] Summary: In late January, poloff joined a delegation from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to visit three Nairobi-area prisons. UNODC is considering allocating some funding to assist the Kenya Prisons Service (KPS) in improving prison conditions. KPS officials seemed quite open in show [...]
2009-02-25 08:07:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KCRM KJUS KE
09NAIROBI357SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER III
[...] (C) Summary: Welcome to Kenya. Your visit comes just over one year after the disputed December 2007 general elections, when the controversial announcement of the victory of incumbent President Mwai Kibaki led to widespread violence, the deaths of 1,500 people and displacement of 500,000 Kenyan [...]
2009-02-25 08:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL ECON IN KE LO PA SA CY
09NAIROBI369 JOINT HEADS OF MISSION STATEMENT ON IMPUNITY IN KENYA
[...] On February 26, the Ambassador joined in a statement on impunity in Kenya, which was issued by Heads of Mission in Nairobi regarding impunity in Kenya. Begin text: Statement on impunity in Kenya We, the undersigned heads of diplomatic missions in Nairobi, welcome Professor Philip Alston [...]
2009-02-26 10:34:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL ASEC MOPS KE
09NAIROBI370RELIGIOUS LEADERS CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY,
[...] In their first real attempt since the post-election crisis to regain their role as advocates for social change, leaders from the Inter-Religious Forum called on Kenyans to come together for a day of prayer and reflection on February 19. In a transparent attempt to preempt criticism for their [...]
2009-02-26 11:07:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KIRF KCOR KE
09NAIROBI371Letters to the President and PM on Reform
[...] On February 26 the Ambassador sent identical letters to President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga to urge greater action on the reform agenda and combating corruption. Begin Text: February 26, 2009 Dear Mr. President: I am writing with regard to the progress and pace of implementati [...]
2009-02-26 11:19:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PGOV KCRM PREL KE
09NAIROBI372KENYA PROVIDES PROPOSED AGOA FORUM AGENDA; MISSION
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Following receipt of ref B, mission AGOA committee has determined that an interagency visit during the week of March 16 would be difficult to support. Key logistics personnel will be out of Kenya during proposed TDY. Mid-March is also s [...]
2009-02-26 11:37:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI373TOURIST NUMBERS DEPRESSED WHILE POACHING OF WILDIFE,
[...] SUMMARY: Kenya Wildlife Service, Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, and Ministry of Tourism officials are concerned by a sudden spike in the numbers of elephants, especially in Amboseli and Tsavo East National Parks, apparently poached for their tusks. At the same time, they along with count [...]
2009-02-26 12:20:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ETRD KCRM KSCA ECON KE
09NAIROBI391 The Watershed Crisis and Fundamental Reform
[...] (U) NOTE: This cable was prepared by the Ambassador in mid-November 2008 but was inadvertently not/not transmitted. However, we are sending it now for the record because it should be read in conjunction with Septel, which follows on U.S. policy and the current status of Kenya's reform efforts. [...]
2009-02-26 13:46:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI4KENYAN VIEWS ON SOMALI PIRACY CONTACT GROUP
[...] Summary: Kenya supports the proposal to establish a Contact Group on Somali Piracy and plans to send an appropriate high-level official to participate in the inaugural meeting of the CGSP in New York January 13-14. End Summary. 2. In response to Reftel, the Kenyan MFA told us December 29 th [...]
2009-01-02 08:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT KCRM MOPS PHSA PBTS PTER KE
09NAIROBI407 U.S. Policy, the Reform Agenda, and Impact of President
[...] (C) Summary. This message discusses the status of the reform agenda agreed to by the coalition government, the central U.S. role to ensure its full implementation, and specific steps we are taking. The election of President Obama, viewed here as a "son of Kenya," has greatly enhanced already s [...]
2009-02-26 15:03:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI41Working the Public and Press: Theme Based and Inter-Agency
[...] Summary. During the first quarter, Embassy Nairobi emphasized theme-focused programming: from the overarching reform agenda Kenya must meet this year to many social issues where the media could play a constructive role. The Kenyan media face challenges both from within and without. After sp [...]
2009-01-08 08:23:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE KMDR KPAO
09NAIROBI413UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR CRITICIZES GOK ON
[...] (C) On February 25, the UN Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial Killings (the Special Rapporteur),Philip Alston, issued a preliminary report of his ten-day visit to Kenya where he noted that extrajudicial killings by police were "systematic, widespread, and carefully planned". During his vi [...]
2009-02-27 10:28:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KE
09NAIROBI421KENYA PROVIDES FULL THREE-DAY AGOA PROGRAM
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary. During the February 26 meeting of the Government of Kenya's (GOK) AGOA Preparatory Committee, the Technical Sub-committee provided a full three-day AGOA Forum program (see para 7 below). It also announced a separate pre-meeting [...]
2009-03-02 12:23:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI43EASBRIG UPDATES ITS FRIENDS
[...] (U) On November 25, the East African Standby Brigade (EASBRIG) used the occasion of its first-ever Command Post Exercise (CPX) to bring donors together for an update on EASBRIG's progress and to request further support. While the meeting's agenda focused on capacity building for the still-nas [...]
2009-01-08 11:25:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL KE XW
09NAIROBI45ANNAN IN KENYA REFORM PROCESS
[...] As promised, Kofi Annan has remained intensively engaged in the carrying out of Kenya's reform agenda. On Sunday, January 4, Annan published a full page Op-Ed in all major Kenya papers in which he praised Kenya for progress made, but urged the Government of Kenya to quicken the pace of reforms [...]
2009-01-08 13:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI455Embassy Science Fellows Program 2009 (Kenya)
[...] Embassy Nairobi requests a Science Fellow from USGS, NOAA, USDA, or other appropriate agency to provide technical assistance to Kenya's Ministry for the Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands in land use planning for Kenya's Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASALs). Timing for the Fellowsh [...]
2009-03-06 09:44:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER EPA KE
09NAIROBI458TWO HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MURDERED IN APPARENT
[...] (C) On March 5 the Executive Director and Communications Director of the Oscar Foundation, a well-known human rights organization, were murdered in an apparent assassination. The Oscar Foundation had criticized police for killing youth suspected of being members of the outlawed Mungiki sect. I [...]
2009-03-06 16:59:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV ASEC KCRM KE
09NAIROBI480TERRORIST THREAT PROMPTS KENYA TO EXPAND BORDER
[...] (U) The Kenyan government has announced plans to recruit 4000 additional Administrative Police (AP) officers to boost security along Kenya's porous borders and protect against terrorist threats. Permanent Secretary for Internal Security and Provincial Administration, Francis Kimemia, announced [...]
2009-03-11 09:50:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE PGOV PREL PTER SO
09NAIROBI481RWANDA WAR CRIMES PROSECUTOR MAKES FINAL APPEAL
[...] (U) On March 2 ICTR Chief Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow briefed representatives of the informal "Friends of the ICTR," made up of several African and western diplomatic missions in Nairobi, Kenya on the status of efforts to apprehend fugitive Rwandan war crimes suspect Felicien Kabuga, wh [...]
2009-03-11 12:21:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KCRM KE RW
09NAIROBI49KENYA FORMALLY SETS AUGUST 3-7 AS THE OFFICIAL DATES FOR
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. This is an action request for the USG 2009 AGOA Forum interagency preparatory committee. See paragraph 4. 3. By formal diplomatic note dated 8 January 2009, the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs notified post that "the Government of [...]
2009-01-09 10:08:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI496CAUTIOUS KENYA FINALLY ENACTS LONG AWAITED BIOSAFETY ACT OF
[...] Summary: On February 12, 2009, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki signed the long awaited and hotly disputed Biosafety Act of 2009 into law. Kenya thus becomes the fourth African country (following South Africa, Egypt, and Burkina Faso) to enact legislation establishing the legal framework to gover [...]
2009-03-11 13:52:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAGR KIPR ETRD SENV EINV ECON PGOV KE
09NAIROBI525THREATS TO HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS INCREASING
[...] (C) Following the March 5 murder of two human rights activists from the Oscar Foundation NGO in Nairobi (Reftel A),an increasing number of human rights activists have been subjected to threats, mainly through text messages. Several leading human rights activists have temporarily fled Kenya in [...]
2009-03-16 05:54:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KE
09NAIROBI530THE REFORM AGENDA IN KENYA: ENERGIZING THE PRIVATE
[...] As previous reporting has noted, peaceful pressure coming from civil society groups, religious organizations, the private sector, and the media were instrumental in helping resolve the crisis triggered by the December 2007 disputed elections. Having undertaken some steps to implement relati [...]
2009-03-16 15:10:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON KE
09NAIROBI531THE REFORM PROCESS IN KENYA: ENERGIZING CIVIL
[...] Peaceful pressure coming from civil society groups, religious organizations, the private sector, and the media were instrumental in helping resolve the crisis triggered by the December 2007 disputed elections. Having undertaken some steps to implement relatively easy elements of the reform ag [...]
2009-03-16 15:21:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
09NAIROBI532KENYA: KOFI ANNAN FULLY ENGAGED AND PRESSING FOR
[...] (C) Summary: During a recent stop in Nairobi, Kofi Annan called both the President and Prime Minister to urge them to act quickly on the outstanding reform agenda items that the government has yet to address. Annan asked to see me to consult on how best to push the reform agenda forward, and s [...]
2009-03-17 04:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV PHUM KE
09NAIROBI538THE KIBERA SLUM: POVERTY, REFORM, AND THE
[...] On January 29 and March 10, the Ambassador visited the Nairobi slum area of Kibera (with almost 1 million people, it is the largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa) as part of a continuing series of visits to interact with the people, to support assistance U.S. efforts including by publicizing what [...]
2009-03-17 12:21:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PREL PGOV ECON KE
09NAIROBI540THE REFORM AGENDA IN KENYA: PRESSURE THROUGH
[...] Septels have reported extensively on Mission efforts to press the coalition government to implement the reform agenda. Energizing civil society, the private sector, religious groups, and the media are essential. We are also carrying out vigorous public diplomacy. 2. During February the A [...]
2009-03-17 12:22:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM PHUM PGOV KE
09NAIROBI541KENYA: AMBASSADOR'S REMARKS TO KENYA
[...] As reported in septels, as part of efforts to tackle the culture of impunity, and specifically corruption, the Mission is using a combination of private pressure on the coalition government leaders, support for Parliament, a range of programs like the MCC threshold, assistance to civil society [...]
2009-03-17 13:08:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM PHUM PGOV KE
09NAIROBI543KENYA: PUSHING KIBAKI AND ODINGA ON REFORM
[...] (C) Since the beginning of the year, in addition to keeping in close touch by phone, I have met with President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga each a number of times to urge them to follow through on implementation of the reform agenda agreed to as part of the coalition agreement last year. [...]
2009-03-17 13:21:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV KE
09NAIROBI544PUSHING FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ECONOMIC AND
[...] The U.S. has a strong interest in seeing the coalition government move ahead with both economic and political reforms. They are inextricably linked, especially in view of the global economic crisis. As our reporting has indicated, we are pursuing a concerted strategy to achieve this, includi [...]
2009-03-17 13:22:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV PREL ECON KE
09NAIROBI545KENYA: PROMOTING RECONCILIATION AND PUSHING ON THE
[...] Summary: Promoting reconciliation in the wake of the post-election violence and pushing for implementation of the reform agenda are inter-related aspects of supporting democratic change in Kenya. As part of these efforts, a Mission team, headed by the Ambassador, recently visited Nakuru and El [...]
2009-03-17 13:22:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM PGOV KE
09NAIROBI546ADVANCING THE REFORM PROCESS IN KENYA -- VISA
[...] As approved by Washington, we have found an individual ineligible under section 212f for engaging in official corruption. This step has been taken on the merits, and as part of continuing efforts to encourage coalition government action on the reform agenda, including specifically action agai [...]
2009-03-17 14:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PREL PGOV CONS KE PINR
09NAIROBI550FOREIGN MINISTER WETANGULA BRIEFS THE DIPLOMATIC
[...] (U) Summary: On March 3 Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula convened the Nairobi diplomatic corps to review developments in Kenya and highlight the accomplishments of the Coalition Government. Th Coalition Government is strong, and Wetangula expects it to serve out its full term to 2012. The GO [...]
2009-03-18 11:18:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHSA PREL PHUM PGOV KE
09NAIROBI551GOVERNMENT RAIDS SAMBURU CATTLE, STAGE SET FOR
[...] In response to complaints of the theft of 560 head of livestock by Samburu raiders, Kenyan security forces staged a major livestock roundup operation in and around Samburu District at the end of February that netted a total of approximately 4,000 animals, none of which reportedly belonged to t [...]
2009-03-18 12:16:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KCRM KCOR KE
09NAIROBI553IRAN TRADE MISSION TO KENYA STRICTLY BUSINESS; AHMADINEJAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Middle East Division director Ken Vitisia, the recent visit of Iranian President Mahjmoud Ahmadinejad, accompanied by 200 businessmen and Iranian government officials, among them Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki, was principally a tr [...]
2009-03-19 08:06:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EPET PREL ENRG ECON EINV PINR IR KE
09NAIROBI559AGOA FORUM UPDATE: GOK PRESENTS COUNTER THEME, REMAINS
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary. During the March 12 meeting of the AGOA Forum Preparatory Meeting, the Government of Kenya (GOK) presented the counter theme, "Realizing the full potential of AGOA through expansion of trade and investment," which it considers a [...]
2009-03-20 05:37:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI565KENYA'S FOREIGN MINISTER DEFENDS RECENT IRAN VISIT
[...] Summary: On March 9, post received a formal response from Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula to the Ambassador's February 24th letter expressing U.S. concerns about the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Kenya. Ahmedinejad headed a large delegation for a two-day visit that was almo [...]
2009-03-20 09:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD EPET KE IR
09NAIROBI571KENYA: GOK THOUGHTS ON DADAAB REFUGEES AND FOURTH
[...] Summary: Government of Kenya (GOK) officials underscored the need for a "special solution for a special problem" during a recent discussion about Somali refugees in Kenya with representatives of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). They highlighted Kenya's waning patience w [...]
2009-03-23 09:25:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV EAID PHUM KE ET SO
09NAIROBI579ANTI-CORRUPTION CHIEF ON KENYAN KLEPTOCRACY
[...] (C) Summary: Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission Director Justice Ringera told Econ/C that while there was no evidence of involvement by "big fish" in either the Triton Oil or maize scandals (ref b) "every mover and shaker" in the Parliament, Cabinet, and the Attorney General's office is corrupt [...]
2009-03-24 11:46:00Embassy NairobiSECRETKCOR KCRM KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL ECON KE
09NAIROBI581DEMARCHE REQUESTING ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR AMISOM
[...] (C) On March 19, Acting Pol Counselor delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Binsai Chepsongol, head of the Americas division at the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chepsongol noted that, when now-President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed headed up the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia in 2007, he play [...]
2009-03-24 14:58:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO SO KE
09NAIROBI582DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA AND
[...] (C) On March 19, A/Pol Counselor delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Binsai Chepsongol, head of the Americas division at the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While not overly familiar with the dynamics of the recognition issue, Chepsongol did ask how the situation was different from Kos [...]
2009-03-24 14:59:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL GG RS KE
09NAIROBI583DEMARCHE ON ANNUAL DECLARATIONS TO HAGUE CODE OF
[...] On March 19, Acting Pol Counselor delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Binsai Chepsongol, head of the Americas division at the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chepsongol expressed surprise that Kenya was a signatory to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Mission Proliferation (H [...]
2009-03-24 15:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA KE
09NAIROBI597DEMARCHE ON KENYAN TRAINING OF SPLA IN SOUTHERN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-25 13:34:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR OFDC KY SU KE
09NAIROBI600AMBASSADOR URGES GOK TO BEGIN ENFORCING ITS
[...] In his keynote address at a March 11 workshop on brand protection and the observance of intellectual property rights organized by the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, Ambassador Ranneberger urged the Government of Kenya to begin enforcing the recently enacted Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2009 in [...]
2009-03-25 14:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ETRD EINV EFIN ECON PGOV KCOR KE
09NAIROBI619KENYA WILL "SERIOUSLY CONSIDER" NOT INVITING GUINEA AND
[...] (SBU) As instructed ref A, Economics Counselor urged the Government of Kenya (GOK) not to invite Guinea and Madagascar to the August 4-6, 2009, AGOA Forum in Nairobi. 2. (SBU) During a March 24 meeting between the senior GOK officials responsible for organizing the forum and a visiting USG [...]
2009-03-27 08:06:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON AGOA PGOV PREL GV MA KE
09NAIROBI641AUSTR LISER URGES KENYA TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AGOA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant United States Trade Representative Florizelle Liser encouraged Kenyan Trade Minister Amos Kimunya on March 16 to take full advantage of the AGOA framework to seek greater exports to the United States. She also underscored that progress on Kenya's reform agenda is fund [...]
2009-04-01 09:29:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAIR ECON ETEX ETRD AGOA PGOV KCOR KE
09NAIROBI643THE REFORM PROCESS IN KENYA: PRIME MINISTER'S
[...] (C) Summary. On March 27 Prime Minister Odinga delivered a speech which he had been billed as a major address on the reform process and corruption. The speech was delivered at a time when Kenyans have become increasingly frustrated with lack of action to tackle the longstanding culture of im [...]
2009-04-01 14:22:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI644KENYA: ANNAN FOUNDATION CONFERENCE IN GENEVA
[...] (C) Summary. Kofi Annan used his Annan Foundation to hold a two-day conference in Geneva focused on &The Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation: One Year Later,8 which I attended. His purpose was to push implementation of the reforms agreed to by the coalition government in February, 200 [...]
2009-04-01 14:51:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PREL PGOV PHUM KE
09NAIROBI656PROPELLING THE REFORM PROCESS IN KENYA: MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary. On March 23 I met separately with the National Intelligence Chief, the Foreign Minister, and the President,s permanent secretary to press on implementation of the reform agenda. I called attention to growing concerns at senior levels in Washington regarding insufficient progress [...]
2009-04-02 13:55:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM KE PGOV PHUM PREL
09NAIROBI663 President Obama's Comment on Kenya
[...] I have today sent the following letter to President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga pointing out the comment made on Kenya by President Obama on April 3. The comment was also prominently covered in the media. 2. Begin text of letter: April 6, 2009 Mr. President and Mr. Prime Ministe [...]
2009-04-06 06:23:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KE
09NAIROBI706MINISTER OF JUSTICE KARUA RESIGNS FROM GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Minister of Justice, National Cohesion, and Constitutional Affairs Martha Karua on April 6 resigned from the Grand Coalition government, explaining to the press that she could no longer discharge her duties due to interference from unnamed persons within government. Karua's resignation is [...]
2009-04-07 14:29:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI71Prime Minister Speaks About Coalition Government
[...] In a lengthy newspaper interview published January 10 Prime Minister Raila Odinga revealed candidly his thoughts on the Coalition government, his relations with President Kibaki, his expectations for the U.S.-Kenya relationship, and the state of Kenya one year after the compromised elections of [...]
2009-01-12 11:41:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI710 COALITION RETREAT HIGHLIGHTS STALLED REFORM PROCESS
[...] Summary. President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga held an off-site "retreat" to take stock of the coalition government and to discuss the way forward on the reform process. The retreat failed to map out the way forward, instead highlighting differences of approach. The calling of the retrea [...]
2009-04-08 08:34:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI712CONSTITUTION REVIEW COMMITTEE FACES HUGE TASK
[...] Summary: The Constitution of Kenya Review Act of 2008, as part of the reform agenda outlined in the political power-sharing agreement, provided for a Committee of Experts (the Committee) to review the Kenyan Constitution and existing drafts from previous constitutional review efforts. Followin [...]
2009-04-08 10:46:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI714 THE REFORM PROCESS - OUTREACH TO SENIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH
[...] Summary. As part of continuing outreach to civil society, religious groups, the private sector, and the media, the Ambassador recently met with senior Catholic Church representatives. They emphasized their commitment to help push forward the reform process, and described their efforts to prom [...]
2009-04-08 11:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
09NAIROBI715KIBAKI TOURS THE COUNTRY
[...] (C) Since mid-March President Mwai Kibaki has been visiting different areas of the country. This appears to be an effort to enhance the President's credibility with the Kenyan people, given polls showing substantial dissatisfaction with the performance of the coalition government in implement [...]
2009-04-08 12:54:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI731KENYA WILL NOT INVITE GUINEA AND MADAGASCAR TO AGOA FORUM
[...] (SBU) At the conclusion of the Government of Kenya's April 9 AGOA Forum preparatory committee meeting, Economic Counselor reiterated to Ministry of Trade Chief Economist and committee co-chair Richard Sindiga that the United States does not want Guinea and Madagascar invited to the August 4-6, [...]
2009-04-09 13:33:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON AGOA PGOV PREL GV MA KE
09NAIROBI744 A Troubled Coalition, the Reform Process, and U.S. Policy
[...] (C) Summary. Following a honeymoon period during its first six months in office, the coalition government emerged as an embattled marriage early this year. Disagreements between the two principal coalition government partners, President Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) and Prime Minister [...]
2009-04-14 15:28:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
09NAIROBI753 The Reform Process - Engaging the National Council of
[...] Summary. As part of the Mission's continuing engagement with religious groups, civil society, the private sector, and the media in an effort to push implementation of the reform agenda, the Ambassador recently met with leaders of the National Council of Churches (NCCK). The NCCK played a very [...]
2009-04-15 13:23:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
09NAIROBI759 Visit to Aberdares and Mount Kenya Highlights
[...] Summary. A recent visit to the Aberdares Forest and Mount Kenya highlighted the serious environmental challenges Kenya confronts. Conservation efforts in the Aberdares have yielded impressive results, reflecting good cooperation between the Kenyan government and non-governmental groups. Effort [...]
2009-04-15 14:25:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SENV KE
09NAIROBI761 DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF KOSOVO'S IMF AND WORLD BANK BID
[...] (SBU) Emphasizing the high priority the USG places on Kosovo's success and the need for Kenya's support for Kosovo's application to the World Bank and IMF, the Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Minister of Finance Kenyatta on April 15. Kenyatta, carefully considering the Ambassador's po [...]
2009-04-16 06:06:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PREL KV KE
09NAIROBI765AGOA FORUM UPDATE: GOK PRESENTS FINAL DRAFT PROGRAM WITH
[...] This is an action message; please see para 10. 2. Summary: During the April 9 meeting of the AGOA Forum Preparatory Meeting, the Government of Kenya (GOK) presented a final draft of the full three-day program. After consulting with embassies of AGOA-eligible countries, the GOK accepted a [...]
2009-04-16 11:53:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI766 Religious Leaders Call for Action on Reform
[...] Summary. In recent months religious leaders have been exerting strong leadership to press President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga to implement the reform agenda. The religious leaders have enormous influence with the Kenyan people, and thus are a positive force in urging peaceful pressure [...]
2009-04-16 13:56:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
09NAIROBI767ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING EMERGING YOUTH LEADERSHIP
[...] (U) Summary. At a time of ferment in Kenya, when many observers are focused primarily on problems within the coalition government, new youth leaders are emerging who are pressing peacefully for change. They are cooperating across ethnic lines, and coordinating with civil society and religious [...]
2009-04-16 14:30:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI780CONTROVERSIAL JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS HIGHLIGHT NEED
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 2, seven new judicial appointments became official as judges were sworn in by Chief Justice Evans Gicheru. The seven appointments included the elevation of two judges from the High Court to the Court of Appeal, as well as the appointment of five judges to the High Court. [...]
2009-04-21 08:19:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KE
09NAIROBI785THE SECRETARY'S LETTER AND THE REFORM AGENDA IN KENYA
[...] (C) Summary. In response to the letter from Secretary Clinton, President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga both said that the reform agenda will move forward. While neither took responsibility for the slowness of implementation, they admitted that progress has been slow and that government ac [...]
2009-04-21 14:45:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM KE
09NAIROBI799KENYA REITERATES IT WILL ADHERE TO AU POSITIONS ON GUINEA
[...] (SBU) Paul Mdungu, the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Africa Division deputy director, reiterated April 21 that Kenya will adhere to all African Union policies on Madagascar and Guinea. Describing our requests (refs A and D) as "reasonable," Mdungu said Kenya fully understands the USG's p [...]
2009-04-22 13:09:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC EAID ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL GV MA KE
09NAIROBI800MUNGIKI-INSPIRED VIOLENCE HITS CENTRAL PROVINCE
[...] Violence erupted in Karatina town and surrounding communities in Central Province after local residents resisted moves by the Mungiki criminal organization to force payment of a monthly levy on local residents and businessmen for "protection." Despairing that police were unable or unwilling [...]
2009-04-23 08:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC KE
09NAIROBI806CENTRAL PROVINCE: SIGNS OF POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION
[...] (C) During a recent visit to the Kikuyu homeland of Central Province by the Ambassador and Pol FSN, residents expressed growing frustration with their Members of Parliament (MPs) and the lack of financial and development benefits from the government despite their steadfast support of President [...]
2009-04-24 11:00:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KE
09NAIROBI807SELECTION OF NEW ELECTORAL BODY MOVING AHEAD
[...] The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) has settled on a Chair and 8 Commissioners for the Independent Interim Electoral Commission (IIEC). The IIEC is a temporary body that was formed in December 2008 to replace the discredited Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) (Reftel). It is tasked wit [...]
2009-04-24 11:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI808FRAGILE PEACE IN RIFT VALLEY: THE KALENJIN
[...] Summary: On a recent trip to Rift Valley province, poloffs accompanied Ambassador Ranneberger to an important peace event at Ndeffo and Egerton University near Nakuru and then met with a range of contacts to discuss the situation on the ground and possible approaches to achieving the desired en [...]
2009-04-24 11:08:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC KE
09NAIROBI809KIBAKI ADDRESSES OPENING OF PARLIAMENT
[...] Summary: At the April 21 opening of the third session of Parliament, 199 of 222 members of Parliament (MPs) attended and listened attentively to the President's and Speaker's speeches. In their opening prayers, religious leaders called for peace, unity, and strength even as the country was goin [...]
2009-04-24 12:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAGR SENV KE UG
09NAIROBI82KENYAN TEACHERS PREPARE TO STRIKE
[...] (U) After more than six months of salary negotiations with the Ministry of Education, the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has said its 148,000 members will strike January 19. To call off the strike, KNUT demands a 35% average pay raise effective January 1, 2009. The government has of [...]
2009-01-13 12:23:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON ETRD PHUM SOCI KE
09NAIROBI822 Crisis in Coalition Government
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-27 14:49:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI823 Crisis in Coalition Government
[...] (C) Summary: Although in mid-April meetings between President Kibaki, Prime Minister Odinga, and their teams held out prospects to resolve differences which had troubled the coalition, another serious crisis threatens its existence. The crisis developed at the end of last week when Prime Mini [...]
2009-04-27 15:31:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI846LETTER FROM PM ODINGA TO THE SECRETARY
[...] In reply to the Secretary?s letter (Reftel),Post received April 29 the following letter dated April 24 from Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Original to follow via pouch. 2. Quote: Dear Madam Secretary of State, I thank you for your letter of April 9, 2009. Your concerns and suggestions reg [...]
2009-04-29 13:31:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI848 Parliament Speaker's Ruling Averts Crisis
[...] (C) Summary. Speaker of Parliament's solomonic ruling on April 28 has averted a crisis within the coalition government. The ruling potentially paves the way for Parliament to focus on implementation of the reform agenda. However, the continuing differences between President Kibaki and Prime M [...]
2009-04-29 15:05:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI859AGOA FORUM UPDATE: PROGRESS ON CO-CHAIRS AND
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary: During the April 23 AGOA Forum Main Preparatory Committee, the Government of Kenya (GOK) presented a revised program - provided by the Kenyan embassy in Washington - with changes to breakout session co-chairs. The GOK, along w [...]
2009-04-30 14:28:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI86KENYA PASSES LONG AWAITED ANTI-COUNTERFEIT GOODS BILL
[...] Summary: On 10 December 2008, Kenya's Parliament finally passed a long awaited anti-counterfeit goods bill, which substantially raises penalties for individuals convicted of manufacturing, importing, and selling knockoffs. President Mwai Kibaki signed it December 24 and it is expected to be p [...]
2009-01-13 14:14:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR KCRM ETRD PHUM EINV EFIN ECON PGOV KE
09NAIROBI866 DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF KOSOVO'S IMF AND WORLD BANK BID
[...] (SBU) On May 4, Econ Counselor followed up with the Kenyan Ministry of Finance regarding Kenya's vote on Kosovo membership of the IMF and World Bank. Staff in the office of the Ministry of Finance's Economic Secretary (third ranking in the Ministry) confirmed that Kenya faxed in its "yes" vot [...]
2009-05-04 11:41:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PREL KV KE
09NAIROBI876MUTULA KILONZO NAMED MINISTER OF JUSTICE
[...] The government announced on May 4 that Mutula Kilonzo has been named Minister of Justice, National Cohesion, and Constitutional Affairs (Minister of Justice). Until his appointment as Minister of Justice, Kilonzo had been serving as the Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development. He is k [...]
2009-05-05 13:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI90POLITICAL PARTIES ACT: NUMBER OF PARTIES SLASHED
[...] (C) The Political Parties Registrar, Lucy N'dungu, told poloff on January 8 that her office had issued certificates of registration to 38 Kenyan political parties which had complied with the requirements of Political Parties Act of 2007 (Reftel B). The 38 parties are now entitled to particip [...]
2009-01-14 12:48:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI930 Migingo Island -- The View from Kenya
[...] Summary: The current dispute over Migingo Island in Lake Victoria sparked in 2006 when Ugandan customs officers began to collect levies from Kenyan fishermen fishing in waters around the disputed island. Despite the competing claims to ownership and the generally inflammatory media hype, the K [...]
2009-05-08 12:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EFIS ASEC UG KE
09NAIROBI941 DEMARCHE: ARMS/SECURITY TEAMS ABOARD MERCHANT VESSELS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-11 12:27:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT KHLS ASEC KOMC MARR PARM PREL PHSA KE
09NAIROBI985 USG Influenza Surveillance, Preparedness, and Response in
[...] SUMMARY: Most Sub-Saharan African countries including Kenya have lacked proper laboratories and public health infrastructure to conduct influenza surveillance in support of outbreak response. In 2006, CDC - Kenya, and the US Army Medical Research Unit - Kenya (USAMRU-K) initiated a collaborati [...]
2009-05-14 14:46:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI988AGOA PREPARATIONS MOVE APACE
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary: At the May 7 meeting of the AGOA Main Preparatory Committee, the Government of Kenya (GOK) agreed to our request to separate lunch and the ministerial closing on the final day of the forum. The committee agreed with the recomme [...]
2009-05-15 06:06:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI991 WESTERN KENYA USAID/OFDA FLOOD ASSESSMENT
[...] A USAID/OFDA visit to flood affected areas in western Kenya reveals no cause for alarm as seasonal flooding is mostly held in check by dykes. A flash flood did cause limited displacement in Nyatike district; victims are being assisted by the GOK and the Kenya Red Cross. Dyke construction and [...]
2009-05-15 08:35:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREL KE
09NAIROBI992 KENYA'S NEW BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE PROMISES GROWTH
[...] Summary: Kenya will revolutionize its telecom industry when it initiates its first fiber optic internet connection on June 27. This broadband connection will vastly improve the quality of internet access to Kenya and contiguous landlocked countries. With increased internet capacity, the fibe [...]
2009-05-15 09:12:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ETRD ETTC ECON EINT PGOV EFIN EINV KE
09NAIROBI994AFRICOM DEPUTY COMMANDER DISCUSSES SECURITY,
[...] (C) On May 5, Africa Command Deputy Commander for Civil-Military Activities Ambassador Mary Yates had a wide-ranging and cordial meeting with Kenya's Chief of General Staff, General Jeremiah Kianga. Kianga discussed the inherent difficulties of controlling Kenya's border with Somalia and the [...]
2009-05-15 09:49:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV PTER KE US SO
09NAIROBI999A/S CARSON'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KIBAKI
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 08:06:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09OSLO593NORWEGIAN HORN OF AFRICA EMERGENCY AID: HOLDING
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA officials on September 24. After the Government of Norway (GON)'s announcement September 9 that it would dedicate about $8.7 million to emergency food aid for the Horn of Africa region, the MFA emphasized that Norway has only about that amo [...]
2009-09-25 12:08:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID PREF EAGR ET KE SO EUN
09OTTAWA765CANADA SPEAKING OUT ON AVERTING A REFUGEE
[...] (SBU) According to Policy Advisor for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Sarah Robertson of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Affairs (DFAIT),DFAIT's Director General for Stabilization and Reconstruction Elissa Goldberg spoke out at the UNHCR's Executive Committee [...]
2009-10-01 19:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL KE UNHCR CA
09PARIS1396FRANCE AGREES KENYA SHOULD INCREASE ASSISTANCE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF agrees with the U.S. that Kenya should do more to assist refugees from Somalia in Kenya. MFA staff is considering how to approach Kenya; one possibility would be for FM Kouchner to raise the issue with Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga during the latter's October 20-2 [...]
2009-10-15 08:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNHCR KE FR
09PRETORIA1592South Africa: Demarche Request for Donor Support for
[...] Senior Agricultural Attache provided reftel demarche points to South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DICO),Directorate of the Horn of Africa and Indian Ocean Islands, Mr. Gabriel P. Setlhoke, Director. 2. Mr. Setlhoke accepted the demarche on behalf of DICO, [...]
2009-08-04 15:09:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF DJ ER KE SO UG
09PRETORIA2228SOUTH AFRICA: AFRICA REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-02 10:19:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC KE SF
09ROME912ITALY DELIVERS EMERGENCY AID TO HORN OF AFRICA
[...] (U) On 15 July Econoff delivered reftel demarche concerning emergency aid to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia to Giovanni Battici, Coordinator for Italy's Emergency Aid within the Development Cooperation section of the MFA. Italy's main focus for aid to Somalia, Battici said, was in building hospit [...]
2009-08-06 09:26:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF DJ ER ET KE SO UG PGOV PREL KPKO
09SCTION08OF09NAIROBI809KIBAKI ADDRESSES OPENING OF PARLIAMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-24 12:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAGR SENV KE UG
09SEOUL1144ROK'S RESPONSE TO DONOR SUPPORT FOR ETHIOPIA,
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified and not/not intended for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) EMin delivered reftel demarche on assistance for the immediate humanitarian needs in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya to Director General Park Gang-ho, head of the Development Cooperation Burea [...]
2009-07-20 22:33:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREF ET KE SO KS
09STATE101182AF A/S CARSON,S MEETING WITH KENYA PM ODINGA,
[...] Classified by Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson. Reason: 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (C) September 24, 2009; 8:00 a.m.; New York, NY. 3. (C) Participants: U.S. AF Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson DRL Assistant Secretary Michael Posner Special Advisor to the Great Lakes Region Harold Wolp [...]
2009-09-29 14:31:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREF PREL PTER SO KE
09STATE102933(U) EAC TRADE NEGOTIATIONS (C-AL9-02031)
[...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS ARE INTERESTED IN THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY'S (EAC) TRADE NEGOTIATIONS IN KAMPALA, UGANDA THAT TOOK PLACE ON SEPTEMBER 24 AND 25. ANALYSTS PLAN TO WRITE ABOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS, AND WOULD APPRECIATE ANY REPORTING ON THE TOPICS BELOW, POSTS' TIME AND RESOURCES PER [...]
2009-10-02 18:29:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPINR BY KE RW TZ UG
09STATE117303TRANSFER OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES TO SOMALILAND AUTHORITIES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-13 15:41:00Secretary of StateSECRETPGOV PHUM PREL PTER KDRG KE SO
09STATE132604PREPARING FOR ADDITIONAL SOMALI REFUGEE FLOWS
[...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: In view of likely significant refugee outflows from Somalia to neighboring countries in the Horn of Africa in early 2010, addressees are requested to urgently provide their best advice on how the USG can work with host governments, including in consultation with other rel [...]
2009-12-31 21:14:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL DJ ET EU KE SO YM
09STATE132608TRAVEL WARNING: SOMALIA
[...] The State Department warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Somalia and recommends that U.S. citizens avoid all travel to Somalia. This replaces the Travel Warning dated November 15 2008, to update information on security concerns. 2. The Department of State warns U.S. citizens agai [...]
2009-12-31 23:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC PTER ASEC SO KE
09STATE13273FEBRUARY 12, 2009 UN SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-12 19:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KPKO SOWGC KE
09STATE14022MISSION CLEARANCE FOR TECHNICAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH
[...] Mission clearance is requested for IO Bureau, Office of Peacekeeping, Sanctions, and Counterterrorism officer Tanaz Khambatta, L Bureau, Attorney Adviser Christina Sanford, and Africa Bureau, Office of Regional Security Affairs contractor Chris Tringale, Senior Contract Analyst Jimmy Savino and [...]
2009-02-14 00:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KE
09STATE26517SOMALIA CONSULTATIONS, MARCH 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-19 17:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KPKO KE
09STATE34093LETTER FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO PRESIDENT
[...] PLEASE DELIVER THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO PRESIDENT KIBAKI AND PM ODINGA. THE DEPARTMENT DOES NOT PLAN TO RELEASE THE TEXT OF THE MESSAGE. A SIGNED ORIGINAL WILL FOLLOW. SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT: DEAR MR. PRESI [...]
2009-04-07 21:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV KE
09STATE34124LETTER FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO PRESIDENT
[...] PLEASE DELIVER THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO PRESIDENT KIBAKI AND PM ODINGA. THE DEPARTMENT DOES NOT PLAN TO RELEASE THE TEXT OF THE MESSAGE. A SIGNED ORIGINAL WILL FOLLOW. SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT: DEAR MR. PRESI [...]
2009-04-07 23:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV KE
09STATE36746REQUEST TO KENYA FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE INVESTIGATION AND
[...] Please forward the original documents received via Federal Express from Blair Berman, DOJ, to the appropriate judicial authorities for transmission to the proper tribunal via diplomatic note. Additionally, please notify Jessica Kraft-Klehm at jessica.kraft-klehm@usdoj.gov when the request is [...]
2009-04-14 19:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCJ CASC KE
09STATE43657MISSION CLEARANCE FOR CONSULTATIONS ON SUDAN
[...] Mission clearance is requested for Robert E. Whitehead, incoming Charg d'Affaires (CDA),U.S. Embassy Khartoum, for Tuesday, May 5, 2009. 2. CDA Whitehead is currently conducting pre-deployment consultations in Washington, D.C., prior to assuming his position at U.S. Embassy Khartoum in mid [...]
2009-04-29 21:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL KE
09STATE48669MAY 13 UN SECURITY COUNCIL CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] USUN may draw upon the elements below during UN Security Council consultations on Somalia. - The United States strongly supports the efforts of President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, and others in the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to devel [...]
2009-05-13 13:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KPKO ET KE
09STATE50608BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK
[...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2 - 4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050045480 for the export of machineguns to Kenya. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lan [...]
2009-05-18 15:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC KE
09STATE52174(U) KENYA: KUDOS ON POLITICAL REPORTING
[...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE THE INCREASED VOLUME OF REPORTING ON KENYA'S POLITICAL STABILITY, THE FUNCTIONING OF THE COALITION GOVERNMENT, AND THE PROSPECTS FOR THE REFORM AGENDA. ANALYSTS PARTICULARLY APPRECIATED REPORTING ON ETHNIC RELATIONS AND RECONCILIATION EFFORTS IN [...]
2009-05-21 15:33:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPINR PGOV KE
09STATE52625KENYA: PM ODINGA UPDATES A/S CARSON; CONCERNED
[...] (C) Prime Minister Odinga, in the United States May 19-24 to visit Chicago and Buffalo, called A/S Carson with an update on developments in Kenya and expressed particular concern that President Kibaki's PNU group had come out in favor of a piecemeal approach to constitutional reform. He said [...]
2009-05-22 12:13:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV ECON KE
09STATE52639A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR AFRICA DIRECTOR GAVIN
[...] (SBU) On May 19, senior U.S. and UK Africa representatives participated in a secure video teleconference (SVTC) focused on Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Somalia. All expressed mutual interest in holding a regular dialogue via SVTC, and agreed to meet during Wood's June 9-10 trip to Washington. U.S. pa [...]
2009-05-22 12:36:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS KE SO UK XA ZI
09STATE52995AFRICA THEMATIC (BIO) WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTATION
[...] The United States seeks to encourage the Government of Kenya (GoK) to host a regional workshop on implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004). The event will be focused on reducing biological threats to enhance regional implementation of UNSCR 1540 and at the same time enhance the [...]
2009-05-22 20:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL PTER XA XI KE
09STATE53761DISPOSITION OF PIRATE SUSPECTS FROM M/V AMIRA
[...] (U) This is an action request in response to reftel request for guidance. 2. (C) Seventeen suspected pirates are currently being held on the USS Gettysburg. Post should request, no later than May 27, that the GoK be prepared to accept the transfer, on or about June 2, of the 17 suspected p [...]
2009-05-26 20:34:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALKE KCRM KDEM PHSA PREL
09STATE60595KENYA -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS GUIDANCE AND
[...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...]
2009-06-11 23:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KE
09STATE66009 NAIROBI REQUESTS RESTRICTED TDY TRAVEL DURING AGOA FORUM
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Nairobi will be on minimize for TDY travel during the period July 20 - August 10, 2009 in the lead-up to and through the AGOA Forum. Between July 20 - August 10, U.S. Mission Nairobi will not be granting country clearances for TDY person [...]
2009-06-25 17:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA ECON ETRD AGOA KE
09STATE77535TRAVEL WARNING - KENYA
[...] The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Kenya. American citizens in Kenya and those considering travel to Kenya should evaluate their personal security situation in light of continuing threats from terrorism and the high rate of violent crime. This replace [...]
2009-07-24 18:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC ASEC KPAO PTER PREL KE
09STATE79525BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK
[...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Posts' assistance in conducting a pre-license check on license 050180857 for the export of International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-controlled spare parts for the F [...]
2009-07-30 15:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC UK KE
09STATE85579USUN INSTRUCTION TO EXECUTE 607 AGREEMENT WITH UN
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN is instructed to execute immediately on behalf of the United States the agreement under Section 607 of the Foreign Assistance Act between the United States and the United Nations Organization Concerning the Provision of Services and Commodities on a Reimbur [...]
2009-08-17 19:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO PREL KE KTIA
09STATE96413PRE-INVITATION TO AFRICA REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON
[...] This is an action request. All addressees please see para 3; and USUN please see para 5. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. UNSCR 1540 obligates all UN Member States to develop and maintain "appropriate, effective" measures to improve their indigenous capacities to counter prolifera [...]
2009-09-16 20:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE
09STATE96625FOLLOW-UP: DONOR SUPPORT URGENTLY NEEDED FOR
[...] This is an action request. 2. Action request: Ref A, transmitted July 8, 2009, requested action addressees to approach host government officials to urge them to provide support to meet urgent humanitarian needs, including food assistance, in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. If Posts have no [...]
2009-09-17 13:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF EAGR ET KE SO EUN
09STOCKHOLM428GAERC JULY 26-7 AGENDA: SWEDEN'S PRELIMINARY ITEMS
[...] (C) Summary: On July 14, Poloffs met with MFA Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel to discuss the July 27-8 GAERC agenda. He said that, as the Swedes intended, the agenda is short to focus discussion on the most important international issues. Currently, there are three B items: conclusions o [...]
2009-07-14 14:23:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM IC NK BM SO IR KE GG UN EU SW
09TRIPOLI561AU SUMMIT: A/S CARSON'S MEETING WITH SOMALI PRESIDENT SHEIKH SHARIF TRIPOLI 00000561 001.2 OF 002 CLASSIFIED BY: Gene A. Cretz, Ambassador, US Embassy Tripoli, Department of State. REASON: 1.4 (b),(d)
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson and Somali President Sheikh Sharif met July 1 on the margins of the African Union (AU) Summit in Sirte, Libya. Their exchange included an assessment of the Somali Transitional Federal Government's (TFG) capacity to repel al-Shabaab [...]
2009-07-13 09:44:00Embassy TripoliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO SO ER ET KE AU LY
09UNVIEVIENNA351 MORE SUPPORT NEEDED FOR UNODC ANTI-PIRACY ACTIVITIES
[...] This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. At a July 22 meeting, UNODC Operations Division Director Francis Maertens told Charge that UNODC seeks additional voluntary contributions to expand its anti-piracy programs off the Somali coast to additional countries in the region, and to exte [...]
2009-07-23 09:18:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCRM EWWT UNODC UN AU UK TZ DJ YM SO KE SE
09USUNNEWYORK669AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS KENYA PR ZACHARY MUBURI-MUITA
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 6 meeting, Kenya Permanent Representative Zachary Muburi-Muita informed Ambassador Rice that Kenya had two main agendas at the UN: socio-economic development including achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),and promoting regional security in Africa. He no [...]
2009-07-09 23:29:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF KE SO SU
09VIENNA1262AUSTRIA SUPPORTS HORN OF AFRICA AID THROUGH EU
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-30 15:25:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF EAGR ET KE SO EUN AU
09YAOUNDE1041 CAMEROON'S NOMINEES AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PLAN FOR THE
[...] In response to reftel, Embassy Yaounde submits the following nominees in rank order of preference for the Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit: Alamine Ousmane Mey ------------------- Mr. Alamine Ousmane Mey is the General Manager of the Afriland First Bank, one of the largest banks in C [...]
2009-12-08 14:43:00Embassy YaoundeUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID PREL SOCI KE
10ADDISABABA135KENYA: CURRENT CONDITIONS IN DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP
[...] (SBU) The three camps that comprise Dadaab refugee camp currently house over 260,000 refugees, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expects the number could increase in the coming months due to the suspension of food assistance in al-Shabaab controlled areas of Somalia [...]
2010-01-28 04:15:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PREL EAID KE ET SO
10ADDISABABA163UNDER SECRETARY OTERO’S MEETING WITH ETHIOPIAN
[...] (SBU) January 31, 2010; 4:15 p.m.; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. Under Secretary Otero Assistant Secretary Carson NSC Senior Director for African Affairs Michelle Gavin PolOff Skye Justice (notetaker) Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Special Assistant Gebretensae Gebremich [...]
2010-02-02 05:38:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MOPS ECON KE ET
10ADDISABABA166ASSISTANT SECRETARY CARSON'S JANUARY 30, 2010,
[...] (C) Summary: A high-level Kenyan delegation headed by Foreign Minister Wetangula used a long January 30 meeting on the margins of the AU Summit to lobby Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson's support for the GOK's long-incubating Lower Juba initiative. Wetangula, the Minist [...]
2010-02-02 11:22:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS PTER SOCI KE SO
10BEIJING65 U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U. S.
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. HHS) have a strong and valued partnership with China's Ministry of Health (MOH),Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and Chinese Academ [...]
2010-01-12 07:45:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV TBIO SOCI CH GT KE EG TH KZ
10CAIRO366Nonproliferation Meetings in Cairo: UNSCR 1540 Workshop and
[...] (U) Key Points: -- A United Nations multilateral workshop for African countries on implementation of UNSCR 1540 was held December 7-10, 2009 in Cairo. The workshop focused on countering WMD proliferation through strengthened border controls. -- U.S. -Egypt bilaterals on the margins [...]
2010-02-24 15:24:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP UN ETRD PBTS PREL EG CF CG KE MO NI GH
10DARESSALAAM97 CITES: TANZANIA PUSHES FOR IVORY SALES
[...] (U) SUMMARY. In a January 28 meeting with Econoff, Tanzania Director of Wildlife Erasmus Tarimo sought U.S. support for Tanzania's proposal to "downlist" the African elephant at the upcoming CITES meeting, so as to permit Tanzania to sell its ivory stockpile. Tarimo expressed mild interest in [...]
2010-02-02 12:38:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID KSCA CITES AORC UNEP TZ KE
10DJIBOUTI165DJIBOUTI: FOREIGN MINISTER UPDATE ON SOMALIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a February 10 meeting with visiting Director of the National Defense University's Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) Ambassador William Bellamy, Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf assessed the current situation in Somalia with pragmatism, concern, and [...]
2010-02-10 15:59:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER SO SU YM DJ ET KE
10KAMPALA37REPORT OF NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT IN KAMPALA
[...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel A that RSO Kampala has received information from Ugandan Police about possible nuclear material (Uranium) currently being transported from Kampala, Uganda to Malindi, Kenya. A Ugandan Police source only known as "Habi [...]
2010-01-25 09:48:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDMNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR PINR UG KE KNNP
10KAMPALA39FOLLOW UP TO 10 KAMPALA 37 REPORT OF NUCLEAR SMUGGLING
[...] (SBU) Post is providing follow up information as requested in ref A to 10 Kampala 37 cable submitted 10/25/2010. 2. (S/NF) SUBJECTS name is Habib BURE. BURE's Cell phone number as reported by Ugandan police is +254-714-379-137. 3. (SBU) At the current time there is no furthe [...]
2010-01-26 07:11:00Embassy KampalaSECRET//NOFORNMNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR PINR UG KE KNNP
10LONDON361AF DAS PAGE'S FEBRUARY 9 COURTESY CALLS ON
[...] (C) Summary. AF DAS Susan Page paid courtesy calls on February 9 on Kenyan High Commissioner Ephram Waweru Ngare, South African High Commissioner Dr. Zola Skweyiya, Nigerian High Commissioner Dr. Dalhatu Tafida, Zimbabwean Ambassador Gabriel Mharadze Machinga, and Ethiopian Ambassador Berhanu [...]
2010-02-17 12:00:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID KE SF NI ZI ET UK
10LONDON65KENYA: KINNOCK'S JANUARY VISIT TO NAIROBI AND
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-12 17:18:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL KDEM KE UK
10NAIROBI106TJRC Update
[...] Summary: The Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) is still in the process of organizing itself and interviewing and hiring staff. On January 24 Commissioners will set off from Nairobi on a 60 day tour of the nation to inform Kenyans about the commission and its mandate; three w [...]
2010-01-19 11:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KE
10NAIROBI11Kenya: Inadequate Witness Protection Poses Painful Dilemma
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 17. 2. (S) Summary: In recent months, post has noted an increased level of intimidation against witnesses to Kenya's late 2007-early 2008 post-election violence. This trend is consistent with security threats against other human ri [...]
2010-01-05 11:40:00Embassy NairobiSECRETPGOV PHUM ASEC KCRM KJUS UG KE
10NAIROBI124African Union Summit -- Kenyan Delegation
[...] Per para six reftel request, Moses Wetangula, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will lead the Kenyan delegation to the AU Summit from January 28-30. President Kibaki will lead the delegation from his arrival in Addis Ababa on January 30 to his departure on February 2. No flight information is avai [...]
2010-01-23 02:24:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP AORC KE
10NAIROBI147S/CT AMBASSADOR DANIEL BENJAMIN AND GOK OFFICIALS DISCUSS
[...] (C) During a one-day visit to Kenya Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism Daniel Benjamin discussed threats from Somalia, Islamic extremism inside Kenya, border security and Kenya's efforts to aid the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG). Amb Benjamin met with George Saitoti, Min [...]
2010-02-08 11:53:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALMCAP MARR PGOV PREL PTER KE SO
10NAIROBI149Constitutional Review Update and Next Steps
[...] (C) Summary: On January 29 the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) reached agreement on what are considered the most contentious issues (the executive structure, devolution of authority, and transition arrangements) in a revised draft of the constitution. The PSC sent its recommendatio [...]
2010-02-08 14:34:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KE
10NAIROBI153Under Secretary Otero's Visit Pushes on Reform and Other
[...] Summary. During her January 25-28 visit, Under Secretary Otero advanced U.S. efforts to press for implementation of the reform agenda, including through meetings with President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga, and in a town hall forum at the University of Nairobi. Otero covered a wide range o [...]
2010-02-09 06:28:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KE
10NAIROBI159ASD Vershbow Visit Highlights Regional Security Issues
[...] (C) Summary: During separate January 26 meetings, Assistant Secretary of Defense Alexander Vershbow met with Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Defense Minister Yussuf Haji, Chief of Defense Jeremiah Kianga, and Interior Minister George Saitoti. PM Odinga expressed serious concern over regional ins [...]
2010-02-11 13:52:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS MARR SU SO KE
10NAIROBI171Severe Coalition Government Tensions Surface
[...] (C) Summary. Severe tensions within the coalition government have been building in recent days and erupted on February 14 into what both sides are characterizing as a "crisis." The revelation of major corruption within the Ministry of Education, headed by a minister allied to President Kibaki, [...]
2010-02-16 12:23:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KE
10NAIROBI181Chinese Engagement in Kenya
[...] (S/NF) Summary: China's engagement in Kenya continues to grow exponentially. China enjoys a large trade surplus with Kenya; exports increased by more than 25 percent a year from 2004 to 2008. The China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) is drilling for oil in the Isiolo region. China may be a po [...]
2010-02-17 07:01:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNPREL EAID KE XW ECON EINV ENRG EFIN PGOV CH PINR
10NAIROBI183Kenya "Crisis" Update
[...] (C) Summary. Neither the President nor the Prime Minister have taken decisive steps to resolve Kenya's coalition "crisis," but there are some signs of progress. At the same time as the ODM announced on February 16 a boycott of Cabinet meetings, President Kibaki then cancelled the Cabinet meeti [...]
2010-02-17 16:10:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KE
10NAIROBI190KENYA: DEMARCHE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-01 14:28:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EU SOCI UNDP UNGA KE
10NAIROBI192DEMARCHE HAITI: U.S. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO HAITI
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-01 14:28:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF EAID ECON HA KE
10NAIROBI213Kenya Weary of Taking More Pirates
[...] On February 24 Post's Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) informed the Kenyan Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of the facts of the case of eight suspected pirates apprehended by the U.S. Navy on February 11. The RLA also notified the DPP that the U.S. is discussing the case with the Tanzanian a [...]
2010-02-26 11:32:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPHSA PREL TZ KE
10NAIROBI226KENYA: COPENHAGEN ACCORD DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] In a January 28 meeting, Undersecretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Otero and Ambassador Ranneberger delivered reftel talking points to Minister of Environment and Natural Resources John Michuki urging the Government of Kenya (GOK) to associate with the Copenhagen Accord. U/S Otero press [...]
2010-02-03 14:30:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KGHG ENRG KE
10NAIROBI246KENYA SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR ELEPHANTS; COP-15 DEMARCHE
[...] Summary: In a February 1 meeting, the GOK sought U.S. support for its proposal to extend the ivory trade ban. The GOK said it has broad African support for the proposal. In the same meeting, econoff delivered reftel talking points on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Speci [...]
2010-02-08 08:25:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP KE
10NAIROBI262U/S Otero Urges for More Educational Opportunties and
[...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary Maria Otero visited the Dadaab refugee camp as part of her January 25-28 visit to Kenya. The need to improve educational opportunities for refugee children and to respond to the security threats of refugee women - particularly as they search for firewood - we [...]
2010-02-09 06:47:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL KE SO
10NAIROBI29Constitutional Debate 5: Power to the People
[...] (C) Summary: This cable is part five in a five part series on the contentious issues and political landscape surrounding the debate on Kenya's Harmonized Draft Constitution. Cable one (Ref A) provided a snapshot of the outstanding contentious issues in the draft constitution: executive [...]
2010-01-08 12:56:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
10NAIROBI31The Constitutional Review Process and the Secretary's Calls
[...] (C) Summary: The Secretary's calls made and planned to Prime Minister Odinga and President Kibaki respectively influenced them to chair a meeting with their teams January 7 at which they emphasized their desire to reach compromise on the key contentious issues with respect to the draft new cons [...]
2010-01-08 13:10:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
10NAIROBI324KENYA: FEBRUARY ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (SBU) John Githongo on the State of Play in Kenya 2. (U) A Glimpse at Kenya's Energy Future 3. (U) Irregular Financial Flows Stabilize the Shilling  [...]
2010-02-10 07:49:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ENRG ECON EINV ETRD PINR KCOR PREL KE
10NAIROBI328KENYA: SUMMARY OF REGIONAL CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP ON GHFSI
[...] USAID/East Africa hosted a Whole of Government workshop in Nairobi, Kenya February 1-5, 2010 on the implementation in eastern and southern Africa of the Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative (GHFSI),as well as on the planning of investments related to global climate change (GCC). Over 12 [...]
2010-02-10 09:33:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR EAID ETRD KGHG SENV ENRG PREL KE
10NAIROBI350Security Minister on Police Reform and Public Outreach
[...] Summary: Following up on the Ambassador's meetings with Minister of Security Saitoti, DCM Lee Brudvig met with the minister on February 3 to discuss his request for assistance with police reform efforts. In addition to presenting a list of requests for his ministry (ranging from additional po [...]
2010-02-17 12:08:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL SO KE PTER EAID
10NAIROBI48THE GLOBAL HUNGER AND FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE: DIPLOMATIC
[...] Post appreciates the Department's interest in implementing the President's Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative (GHFSI) in Kenya. We believe Kenya could become a successful GHFSI partner country and our engagement could catalyze market-driven agricultural reform in the region. Despite [...]
2010-01-11 12:16:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EAID ETRD PREL KE
10NAIROBI50Ambassador Launches New "Yes Youth Can" Initiative
[...] Summary: As part of continuing intensive efforts to press for implementation of the reform agenda, on December 16 the Ambassador announced a new $45 million USAID-funded initiative for youth in Kenya. Speaking at the Kenya Children's Parliament Foundation, the Ambassador launched the "Yes You [...]
2010-01-11 14:36:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM PGOV KE
10NAIROBI59U.S. POLICY TO ADVANCE THE REFORM AGENDA
[...] (C) Summary: Our highest priority efforts are focused on advancing implementation of the reform agenda, which is key to the future democratic stability and prosperity of Kenya. While some positive reform steps have been taken, the old guard associated with the culture of impunity continues to resis [...]
2010-01-12 15:13:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCOR KE
10NAIROBI73Parliamentary Caucus on Reforms Delegation to the U.S.
[...] This is an action request; please see paragraph 8 for meeting requests. 2. Summary: At the invitation of the House Democracy Partnership and with post's support, Kenya's Parliament is sending a delegation of six leaders of the recently-formed Parliamentary Caucus on Reforms (see paragra [...]
2010-01-21 09:31:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM KE
10NAIROBI79Arrest of Islamic Cleric Sparks Violent Protests
[...] (C) Summary: The arrest of radical Islamist cleric Adullah el-Faisal in Kenya on December 31, 2009 sparked a violent protest in which some demonstrators waved al Shabaab flags. As the GOK has attempted and failed to deport Faisal over the past two weeks interfaith tensions have escalated, and [...]
2010-01-22 10:52:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL KCRM KJUS JM SO KE
10NAIROBI85No Consensus On Somali Outflows to Kenya
[...] (C) Summary: Increased conflict and the disruption of humanitarian assistance in Somalia are expected to increase outflows of Somalia refugees to Kenya. There is no agreement among UN agencies on the number of additional Somalis that could seek to enter Kenya over the next three months [...]
2010-01-25 08:30:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL KE SO ET YM DJ
10NAIROBI9Security Sector Assistance in Kenya, Part II: Land Border
[...] (C) Due to the threat of spillover effects from instability in Somalia, the Government of Kenya views effective border control as its top national security concern. Using multiple funding sources, including 1206 funding, the United States' security sector assistance in Kenya supports the develo [...]
2010-01-05 11:28:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS EAID PHUM SO KE
10STATE7986USUN VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: UNSC RESOLUTION ON
[...] This is an action request, please see paragraph two. 2. ACTION REQUEST: On January 28, 2010, the UN Security Council will vote to renew the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). USUN is authorized to vote in support of the resolution; full text included in paragraph three. USUN shou [...]
2010-01-27 13:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO UNSC ET KE
95STATE51417 INR INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT - SOUTH AFRICA:
[...] CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. INR'S FEBRUARY 28 ASSESSMENT ENTITLED SOUTH AFRICA: CHALLENGES FACING MBEKI" IS PROVIDED FOR YOUR INFORMATION AND COMMENT, AS APPROPRIATE. BEGIN TEXT 3. SUMMARY. PRESIDENT MANDELA'S FEBRUARY 15 ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WOULD NOT SEEK A SECOND TERM IN OFFIC [...]
1995-03-02 03:25:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPINR KE PGOV
98STATE145892TFEAO1 SITUATION REPORT NO. 13 AS OF 0530 EDT
[...] CLASSIFIED BY JEFF MILLINGTON, TASK FORCE COORDINATOR TANZANIA ARRESTS SUSPECTS 2. (C) EMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM CONFIRMED THAT TANZANIAN POLICE AUGUST 10 DETAINED 14 SUSPECTS ALLEGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE DAR ES SALAAM BOMBING--6 SUDANESE NATIONALS, 5 IRAQIS, 1 TURK, 1 GERMA [...]
1998-08-11 10:33:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER AEMR MARR CASC PINS KE TZ
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