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Vol 65 No 18

Published 6th September 2024


Kenya

Ruto and Raila combine to take African Union leadership

Its francophone rivals divided, Nairobi has locked up a majority of the votes ahead of the AU election

Amid regional turbulence, President William Ruto showed Kenya’s pulling power with a star-studded launch on 27 August for his former foe, Raila Odinga’s campaign to lead the African Union Commission (AUC). In the five months before the AU election the main question may be less on who will win the top post but more on what 79-year old Odinga will do with it. He would take over the organisation as it tries to mediate in a wave of disastrous regional conflicts, the worst in three decades, and steer through heightened geopolitical rivalries.

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