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Some donors are thought to have asked Mr Kibaki to sack the education minister, George Saitoti, a hangover from the Moi era, and to demote Chris Murungaru, the inept but powerful internal security minister who heads the Mount Kenya group.
ECONOMIST: Kenya's anti-corruption campaign is wooing back donors
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After last summer's reshuffle Downing Street let it be known that Mr Blair's decision in effect to demote the chancellor's (unrelated) friend Nick Brown, from chief whip to agriculture secretary, and to put Mr Byers in the Treasury, was intended to clip the chancellor's wings.
ECONOMIST: Politics
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For the past week the Bush team has done little to quell the rumour that Mr Bush would demote the job from cabinet level (a position that it has held since 1975).
ECONOMIST: Trade policy