Keen to honour his campaign debts and with apparently little concern over the integrity of his nominees President William Ruto has sworn in a 24-member cabinet that is heavy on loyalists light on technocrats and brimming with inexperience (AC Vol 63 No 20 Loyalty trumps all in Ruto's cabinet)...

President William Ruto's grand and expensive promises of a 'bottom up' economy replete with new financial support for small businesses and farmers has quickly fallen foul of economic reality...

That managed to upset both Kenya's erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga and the eventual election winner William Ruto who has been assiduously cultivating Museveni for the past five years...

After a narrow election win and a slim majority of MPs backing him in parliament President William Ruto is taking no chances with his first cabinet...

Raila elder statesman of the opposition Less than a month after President William Ruto broke the hold of Kenya's political dynasties it is unclear who is steering the opposition ship...

Analysts say there is little prospect of inflation falling significantly in the near term despite newly elected President William Ruto pledging to ease economic pressures on Kenyans during his first 100 days in power...

This year at the UN the demand was reiterated by several presidents such as Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Gabon's Ali Bongo Ondimba Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Kenya's William Ruto and Congo-Kinshasa's Félix Tshisekedi...

Facing growing financial pressures President William Ruto appears to be rethinking his earlier rejection of any restructuring of Kenya's foreign debt...

Widespread suspicion greeted the death of Paul Gicheru the Kenyan lawyer who two years ago turned himself into the International Criminal Court to face charges of tampering with prosecution witnesses in the case against then Deputy President William Ruto and radio presenter Joshua arap Sang for organising ethnically-targeted violence after the 2007 elections...