President Mwai Kibaki is about to undertake the first reshuffling of the cabinet of the Grand Coalition Government as the result of by-elections that changed the composition of parliament. Prime Minister Raila Odinga appears to have agreed to the nature of such changes. This ordinarily mundane undertaking will nonetheless provide a test of the stability of the government and should provide a sense of where Kenya's politics stand after last year's violent election-related upheaval.
