While the row over the presidential election is set to end up in the Supreme Court gains by Deputy President William Ruto's coalition in parliamentary county assembly and governorship elections have redrawn Kenya's political map...
WHERE RUTO REDREW THE MAP The contest between former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto for the presidency was the closest in Kenyan history and shook politics to its foundations...
It took two delayed attempts and the intervention of riot police before election chief Wafula Chebukati could announce that Deputy President William Ruto had won the presidential elections with 50...
Deputy President and now President-elect William Ruto told the Bomas meeting that it was a wonderful evening and that: 'The IEBC (Electoral and Boundaries Commission) led by Wafula Chebukati was the hero of this election...
Earlier in the day activists across the country gathered to celebrate what they thought would be the certain victory of their favoured presidential candidates: supporters of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in Kisumu and Deputy President William Ruto in the Rift Valley...
Both Deputy President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga claim they have the momentum to become Kenya's fifth president since independence in 1963...
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Deputy President William Ruto asked European diplomats how a million names many from his political strongholds could have been removed from the register...
Tensions between the Commission and the Executive and between the Commission and the two leading presidential candidates Deputy President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga have been building for months...
Ahead of the 9 August presidential elections former prime minister Raila Odinga has eked out a narrow opinion poll lead over Deputy President William Ruto in recent weeks but neither candidate would command a clear majority in parliament according to the latest surveys...
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Some such as former anti-corruption tsar John Githongo argue it is Kenya's first election about nothing – that is there no marked differences in the policies of the two front-running candidates Deputy Prime Minister William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
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They might also have looked at Kenya where Raila Odinga's astute choice of Martha Karua has given him a clear lead in the opinion polls over his rival Deputy President William Ruto...
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Allegations of improper relations between the firm printing the ballot papers for the general elections and Ford-Kenya leader Moses Wetangula a prominent ally of Deputy President William Ruto could derail preparations for the vote in three weeks' time...
Odinga alleges collusion between the company and rogue officials in the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) with the aim of rigging the 9 August presidential vote in favour of Deputy President William Ruto by stuffing ballot boxes at targeted polling stations...
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The sharpest focus is on the presidential election battle between Raila Odinga and William Ruto but the 9 August elections will also see some fierce contests in the national assembly and in the 47 county governments...
The second-hand clothes market in Kenya is substantial with the country importing 185 000 tonnes of used clothes per year prompting accusations by allies of Odinga's election rival Deputy President William Ruto that Odinga was waging war on the thousands of market stalls selling imported clothes...