At the heart of President William Ruto's calculus ahead of his re-election bid in 2027 is a bet that Kenya's economy will have recovered enough to allow him to end austerity and finance a spending boom...
HOW STATE HOUSE BUSINESS UPSETS ALLIANCES William Ruto ascended to the presidency despite lingering questions about the origins of his wealth estimated at over a billion dollars much of which was acquired during his political career...
Many see this as a ploy by President William Ruto's government to avoid IMF spending strictures in the two-year run-up to the next election...
Vol 66 No 7 |
- KENYA
- WHO'S WHO
Following the protests he led the ODM faction opposing Raila Odinga's party accepting ministerial positions in President William Ruto's cabinet (AC Vol 65 No 16 Raila names his price)...
Vol 66 No 7 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Over the weekend of 29-30 March Kenyan statesman Raila Odinga now part of a unity government with President William Ruto was dispatched as an envoy to meet Machar and Kiir...
His failure to secure the position of chair of the African Union Commission in February may have been more of a blow to President William Ruto than to Odinga himself...
Chebukati who overruled a majority of IEBC members in ruling that William Ruto had won the August 2022 presidential elections died in February...
With the full permission of President William Ruto's government the RSF and allied civilian groups landed in Nairobi on 17 February...
SAF officials say Kenya has confirmed that Hemeti has ‘unrestricted access' to senior officials in President William Ruto's government...
RSF officers backed by the UAE were due to announce their ‘government' in Nairobi on 21 February but Kenya's President William Ruto is coming under pressure from the SAF and some western officials to stop the meeting...
The Covid-19 pandemic led to around 300 journalists losing their jobs but RSF argues that President William Ruto's election in August 2022 ‘marked the start of a difficult period for the media'...
THE MAJORITY RULES A High Court ruling that President William Ruto's Kenya Kwanza (KK) coalition may be in government but is not the majority party in the National Assembly risks causing a major headache for Ruto's de facto unity government...
This latest high-profile defeat is a bitter blow for Odinga but particularly for President William Ruto whose government and prospects of re-election in 2027 are increasingly dependent on Odinga's support...