Now almost completely estranged from the governing Jubilee party which he founded with President Uhuru Kenyatta Ruto's new political vehicle the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) has performed well in several recent by-elections despite being in the nascent stages of organisation and financially reliant on Ruto's immense but unexplained wealth (AC Vol 62 No 8 Unholy alliances)...
Economic development without politics President Uhuru Kenyatta believes in a rare philosophy of government – politics and economics must be dealt with separately each at its own time...
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Judges sat for five consecutive days at the Appeal Court to review the 14 May High Court ruling that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) at the centre of the alliance between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga would breach the constitution (AC Vol 62 No 11 Picking up the pieces)...
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For loyalists of Raila Odinga his electoral negotiations with President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Jubilee party are the logical conclusion of their celebrated handshake deal which ended hostilities after the contested results of the 2017 election...
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Vol 62 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
6% of GDP by 2024/25 confirmation that Uhuru Kenyatta's government has officially abandoned its target of reducing the budget deficit to 4% by the end of his second term in August next year...
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Kenya's treasury secretary Ukur Yatani plans to take a more expansionary route by hiking infrastructure spending on President Uhuru Kenyatta's Big Four projects as part of a budget that forecasts only a small fall in the budget deficit from 8...
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After the 2018 public reconciliation between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga – known simply as the 'handshake' – the BBI was sold as a blueprint to end the 'winner-takes-all' tribal discord that has accompanied every election since the advent of multi-party democracy (AC Vol 61 No 23 A divisive plan for unity)...
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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta are to join by video-link along with several high-level officials from the United States and Japan...
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Political allies President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga have to rethink their political strategy after the High Court in Nairobi threw out their plan to remake the constitution in line with their Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)...
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Vol 62 No 10 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
Speaking at the business forum he complained bitterly about being stymied in his efforts to set up a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) business in Kenya despite being given the nod by President Uhuru Kenyatta...
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Vol 62 No 10 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
More recently it didn't help that Tanzania's dour nationalist President John Magufuli and Kenya's ebullient President Uhuru Kenyatta had such contrasting personalities...
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