As President William Ruto's government tries to fast-track the selection of new commissioners to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) it has been exchanging allegations with its opponents about fraud and murder plots during the August 2022 elections...
Vol 64 No 3 |
- ERITREA
- RUSSIA
At the end of last year Issayas hosted Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Kenya's President William Ruto as part of his plans to reorganise the regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to give Eritrea a greater role...
Vol 64 No 3 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
Kenya's President William Ruto who has assiduously cultivated relations with Washington may be a waverer but Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is likely to go in recognition of Moscow's arms supplies during Addis Ababa's war against Tigray...
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Vol 64 No 3 |
- UGANDA
- TURKEY
Yet President William Ruto's government keen to boost the country's haulage and trucking sector wants to drop the policy compelling big companies use the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR...
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Formed by the infamous 'handshake' between Kenyatta and Raila Odinga in 2018 Azimio brought together Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and the rump of the Jubilee party formed by Kenyatta and his successor William Ruto along with a group of smaller parties led by Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...
The failure of Kenyatta's wing of Jubilee in the Rift Valley and central Kenya to deliver a significant chunk of votes to Odinga was a main reason for his defeat by William Ruto in presidential elections last August (AC Vol 63 No 17 How the hustlers toppled the dynasties)...
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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)...