After the 2018 public reconciliation between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga – known simply as the 'handshake' – the BBI was sold as a blueprint to end the 'winner-takes-all' tribal discord that has accompanied every election since the advent of multi-party democracy (AC Vol 61 No 23 A divisive plan for unity)...
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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta are to join by video-link along with several high-level officials from the United States and Japan...
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Political allies President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga have to rethink their political strategy after the High Court in Nairobi threw out their plan to remake the constitution in line with their Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)...
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Vol 62 No 10 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
Speaking at the business forum he complained bitterly about being stymied in his efforts to set up a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) business in Kenya despite being given the nod by President Uhuru Kenyatta...
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Vol 62 No 10 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
More recently it didn't help that Tanzania's dour nationalist President John Magufuli and Kenya's ebullient President Uhuru Kenyatta had such contrasting personalities...
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President Joe Biden's government is 'looking forward to continue the ongoing discussions with regard to our FTA ' Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday (27 April) in a virtual meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta...
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Kenyan economists with long memories fear President Uhuru Kenyatta's government could be repeating the same pattern...
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It was Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta who spelled out most graphically the cost to Africa of climate change partly because his country could lose over 2% of its national income from the recent wave of droughts and floods...
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Instead several embarrassing setbacks for the 'handshake' duo President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga have prompted concerns that the project could yet snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (AC Vol 62 No 1 Handshake to face poll test)...
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Several petitions signed by thousands urge the International Monetary Fund to reconsider its decision this month to lend President Uhuru Kenyatta's government $2...
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