A month after Kenyan activists forced President William Ruto to drop plans for sweeping tax hikes President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government has organised a comprehensive pre-emption campaign against the ‘Days of Rage' protests in Nigerian cities due to run from 1-10 August...
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Four ministries including the Treasury was the price Raila Odinga set for propping up William Ruto's ailing presidency and to establish what is effectively Kenya's first unity government since 2008...
President William Ruto signed a bipartisan law to reform the IEBC in July and the selection panel tasked with recruiting new IEBC commissioners took office on 30 July after lengthy wrangling between Ruto's Kenya Kwanza and the opposition Azimio la Umoja of Raila Odinga which still blames IEBC bias for Ruto's election in August 2022...
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Vol 65 No 16 |
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There was no mistaking the icy chill when Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi accused his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto of being a Rwandan stooge who had ‘mismanaged' the peace process in eastern Congo...
There was the Nairobi Process driven by Uhuru Kenyatta which unfortunately was subsequently managed by the new president William Ruto...
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President William Ruto's decision last week to bring back six of the senior ministers he had fired particularly Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki who many hold as culpable for the abduction and killing of scores of protestors and organisers has marked a hardening in resolve by State House (AC Vol 65 No 15 Ruto struggles to retain control)...
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Since a wave of countrywide protests organised online by youth activists forced President William Ruto to abandon last week a controversial Finance Bill and taxes worth US$2...
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Having fired his government and accepted the resignation of Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome President William Samoei Ruto is struggling to get a grip on public opinion and events...
Their dissent towards anyone who has been part of the political class became clear when veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga declared in early July that he would be open to dialogue with President William Ruto (Dispatches 9/7/24 Ruto pledges cuts on state budgets and anti-graft action as he struggle to assert control)...
Nigerian activists say the contrast between mass poverty and elite indulgence is far starker under the Tinubu government than its predecessors or indeed Kenya under William Ruto...
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7bn) in tax revenue that it was going to rise in the rejected Finance Bill President William Ruto told Kenyans in a national broadcast on 5 July...
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As they regroup from the political defeat of 26 June President William Ruto and his finance minister Njuguna Ndung'u are torn between the demands of a highly organised protest movement with national support and an economy that is heading towards a cliff edge unless it can pick up more multilateral support...
AFTER THE U-TURN ON TAX ANOTHER ON CORRUPTION To regain credibility on corruption President William Ruto would have to encourage the public prosecutor's office to reopen graft cases against some of his ministers...
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After their protests forced President William Ruto to abandon the government's Finance Bill and its planned US$2...