President William Ruto has executed a small but significant U-turn by unpicking plans to increase the cost of fuel...

Reports that Kenya's President William Ruto had asked his Djiboutian counterpart Ismail Omar Guelleh to work as a mediator on the maritime border were shot down by Somalia's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Mohamed Omar at a hearing with a committee of Kenyan MPs...

Somalia has consistently rejected these efforts and the dispute is one of the few areas where Kenyatta's successor William Ruto who has invested heavily in boosting Kenya's diplomatic standing with its neighbours has made no progress...

In the meantime small steps forward include a summit in Cairo attended by Sudan's neighbours and a phone call between army chief General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Kenya's President William Ruto at the weekend...

The biggest blockage was that the SAF representatives who had arrived in Addis ahead of the talks had refused to attend because they regard Kenya's President William Ruto who chairs the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)'s mediation on Sudan as favouring the RSF...

The dispute adds a wrinkle to President William Ruto's attempts to extend EAC membership...

One of the loudest voices at the summit was Kenya's President William Ruto who called for the IMF and the World Bank to be replaced as the main global lenders...