Après Moi, le déluge?

AFTER 24 years, Daniel arap Moi is losing his grip around Kenya's throat. In the past, he has always won elections by dividing the opposition, but this week his opponents settled on a single candidate to fight the next presidential poll, expected in December. Mr Moi is constitutionally barred from standing again, but he had hoped to slip a pliant successor, Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya's founding father, on to the throne. Against a united opposition, however, Mr Kenyatta stands little chance. A recent poll gives the challenger, Mwai Kibaki, the support of two-thirds of voters in a two-horse race.