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Vol 61 No 1

Published 9th January 2020


Kenya

Jockeying for position

Elections may be two years away but the race to form new electoral alliances already dominates national politics

Kenya began 2020 with erratic and intractable factional politics as the top two candidates for the next presidential election – William Ruto and Raila Odinga – counter each other's attempts to cobble together alliances from their bases in their respective ethnic homelands. As money changes hands on an epic scale, parliamentarians and county leaders are switching parties and alignments at a bewildering pace.

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