Nairobi - President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya yesterday faced a parliamentary vote of no confidence that had little chance of success but signalled the start of a new campaign to oust the veteran East African leader.
The vote - only the third such motion in Kenya's post-independence history - is likely to test the ruling Kenya African National Union's slim parliamentary majority but would need a handful of KANU deputies to show unprecedented dissent in order to succeed.
Similar action ahead of general elections last year forced President Moi into making changes to the constitution that significantly improved the opposition's showing at the polls, but failed to shake his personal 20-year grip on power.