The speed at which William Ruto shoe-horned his allies into key positions in the political and economic system after his election as president less than 18 months ago still shocks some Kenyans...
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Vol 65 No 1 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
While Tshisekedi has received congratulations from regional leaders including Kenya's William Ruto Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan there has been silence from the United States and Europe so far...
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Burhan meanwhile cited Hemeti's friendly relationship with Kenyan President William Ruto as the reason for rejecting Ruto as the lead mediator for the regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) (AC Vol 64 No 21 Politics in a time of war)...
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President William Ruto's government has signed a trade deal with the European Union which Brussels has described as its most advanced with an African state on climate change and labour rights...
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The arrest of Margaret Nyakang'o the widely respected head of Kenya's budget watchdog on what appear to be trumped up fraud charges has prompted concerns about the scale of graft in President William Ruto's government...
It also reflects the mood after the multiple meetings attended by Burhan in November with regional leaders some of whom he was at loggerheads with: Kenya's William Ruto (14 November); Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed (on 15 November); Djibouti's Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and Eritrea's Issayas Aferwerki (26 November)...
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It is a quiet start to privatisation plans which sit alongside a raft of new taxes on income and goods and services as the main new revenue sources that President William Ruto's government is hoping for as it prioritises debt repayments including a $2 billion Eurobond repayment due next year...
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Vol 64 No 23 |
- KENYA
- HAITI
In July President William Ruto's government offered to train and assist the Haitian National Police in the Caribbean state's battle against criminal gangs (AC Vol 64 No 16 K enyan cops vs Haitian gangs)...
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That could explain the presence in Riyadh of Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki and South Sudan's Salva Kiir in addition to regional heavyweights including Nigerian President Bola Tinubu Kenyan President William Ruto Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Ethiopian premier Abiy Ahmed...
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Kenyans are bracing themselves for at least two years of fiscal austerity as William Ruto's government prioritises its Eurobond repayments...
