Having secured however fleetingly full-spectrum dominance over the domestic political scene and with the debt crisis in remission after the International Monetary Fund injected an additional $550 million to its three-year bailout programme President William Ruto must grapple with a stubborn and worsening cost-of-living crisis thanks to the Faustian austerity pact he made with the IMF...
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President William Ruto made little secret of the object of his affections ahead of the 13-16 December African leaders' summit hosted by United States President Joe Biden; US carrier Delta Airways which he hopes will be persuaded to purchase a significant chunk of the loss-making Kenya Airways...
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The fanfare at the launch on 30 November of President William Ruto's Hustler Fund for small businesses could not be denied...
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President William Ruto has suspended the four members of the Independent Elections and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) who disowned the results which saw him elected in August in a move that will trigger a new battle for control of the organisation (AC Vol 63 No 17 Election chief proclaims Ruto victory but most of his commissioners dispute it)...
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One of President William Ruto's first actions after in his inauguration in September was to raise the national debt ceiling to 10 trillion shillings ($81bn)...
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Vol 63 No 24 |
- KENYA
- UGANDA
Less than a fortnight after their Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu Hassan visited China to drum up trade and investment Presidents William Ruto and Yoweri Museveni of Kenya and Uganda have made their own Asian sojourns...
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After his cabinet secretary nominations sailed through parliament despite integrity and competence questions over many of them President William Ruto faces a roadblock to his plans to reward loyalists in his Kenya Kwanza alliance with the next layer of government jobs...
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Pledging more support for the 'Nairobi Peace Process' President William Ruto met with his counterpart Félix Tshisekedi on 21 November to underline Nairobi's economic and security interests in the success of the East African Community's intervention in easter Congo-Kinshasa...
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Electoral disputes have returned to centre-stage after allies of President William Ruto are already calling for term limits on the presidency to be abandoned given the incumbent 55 is 'still a young man'...
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President William Ruto's government has secured an endorsement from the IMF on 8 November giving it access to some US$433 million out of its three-year $2...
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