After winning a commitment by President William Ruto to debate reform of the electoral commission in parliament opposition leader Raila Odinga is demanding that the talks should include parties from outside parliament and the agenda should include an audit of August 2022 elections...

President William Ruto continues to win over supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga in his traditional strongholds in Nyanza (AC Vol 64 No 6 The one-party state bounces back)...

With President William Ruto continuing to eat into Odinga's Azimio la Umoja coalition and refusing to offer Odinga any formal political role the veteran opposition leader is coming under heavy pressure (Dispatches 10/1/23 How the opposition is trying to pick up the pieces)...

And the traders' protests over China Square last month revived some of the nationalistic lines in President William Ruto's election campaign last year when he pledged that all Chinese workers without official documents would be deported...

It had been secured from him by former President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2018 as part of the 'handshake' deal that marginalised then Deputy President William Ruto and set the scene for Odinga's unsuccessful bid for the presidency in August 2022 (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...

These included revealed hacking techniques targeting three aides close to President William Ruto...

During last year's election campaign William Ruto had complained that some of Kenyatta's aides had tried to block his path to the presidency (AC Vol 63 No 22 A different kind of cronyism & Vol 63 No 18 Kenyatta's securocrats cast into the cold)...