Anyone here ever read Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" ? Perhaps you've heard of Milton Friedman? Google and Youtube are a treasure trove of information on the matter.

To summarize. Political and economic instability always open up trade barriers and increase investment potential by lowering currency values of affected regions.

Kenya Shilling is down 10% from a month ago. Nairobi Exchange "crashed" on tuesday. All I see from this is that Tiomin's expenses for the deal just went down 10%. The Kenyan business community is trying to attract foreign investment and if the IMF and WTO get involved it could mean break down some of the previously place trade barriers such as the Kimunya Deal which states that a foreign company can not own more then 60% of a Kenyan company. The Kimunya Deal was not retroactive so Tiomin, which is 100% Canadian owned, was not affected by the deal.

All eyes are on Kenya now.