William Samoei arap Ruto

Previously Whitehall had insisted that official relations with Kenyatta and Vice-President William Ruto would be limited to ‘essential contacts’: both face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court...

On 23 April Kenyatta and his deputy William Samoei arap Ruto stood in their shirtsleeves and matching ties on the stairs of State House to announce the first four of the 18 cabinet appointments...

He achieved it by engineering a partnership between his fellow Kikuyu and the Kalenjin of his running mate William Ruto in the Jubilee Alliance...

Jubilee’s vice-presidential candidate William Ruto claimed that foreign agents were behind the decision...

The Kenyan elections and the International Criminal Court case against presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto pose serious challenges to foreign business...

While Moi’s stature has waned with the coming of William Ruto it is significant that his second son KANU Chairman Gideon Moi has all but secured the family’s native Baringo County in the gubernatorial race (AC Vol 39 No 23 Before the storm)...

It did though subject the candidates’ often surreal policy promises to critical scrutiny and raise directly the charges against presidential aspirant Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto...

Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka joined Odinga to form the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) while William Kipchirchir Samoei arap Ruto is with Kenyatta in the Jubilee Alliance (AC Vol 54 No 1 A race to the bottom)...

Poorly managed these could undermine the national alliance between William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta with consequences for political stability...

Britain said it would only have 'essential' contacts with the Kenyan government which is led by International Criminal Court indictees President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto but Tokyo accepted without comment Ruto as Kenya's representative at the summit...