Most critical say Kenyan human rights lawyers are what they see as the unresolved issues around the ICC's failed prosecution launched in 2012 of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy Ruto on charges of orchestrating the clashes after the 2007 elections in which 1 200 people were killed and over 300 000 chased from their homes...
Yet the victory of a British candidate at the ICC would have been unthinkable five years ago when Western and African states especially Kenya were at loggerheads over the Court's prosecution of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto for crimes against humanity in the post-election violence in 2007...
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Speaking to a large crowd at Uthiru west of the Nairobi city boundary on 12 February after opening a health clinic President Uhuru Kenyatta tore at the record of his deputy William Ruto for undermining the Jubilee government while taking credit for its achievements...
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When President Uhuru Kenyatta shuffled and expanded his pack of ministers on Thursday (19 February) it was his 'handshake' partners Orange Democratic Movement party leader Raila Odinga and his Wiper counterpart Kalonzo Musyoka who benefited most...
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That would allow Kituyi to emerge as a compromise candidate acceptable to President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Mount Kenya allies to keep out Deputy President William Ruto...
Ruto sees the abandoning of the impeachment motion against him as evidence of his strong support and disaffection towards President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga...
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President Uhuru Kenyatta's 'handshake' partner Raila Odinga has been told by his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) that they will agree to support Ruto's impeachment only if it is certain to get the two-thirds support needed in the National Assembly...
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With his estranged Deputy President William Ruto conspicuously absent – it is as yet unclear whether or not he was invited – President Uhuru Kenyatta followed by erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga and other political leaders took the pulpit to urge Kenyans and politicians to maintain peace in pointed references to Ruto...
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The next pitched battle between Deputy President William Ruto and the 'handshake' coalition of President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga is centred over whether and when a by-election to replace impeached Nairobi governor Mike Sonko should be held...
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The political differences between Deputy President William Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta are playing themselves out in the tussle to fill the position of the governor of Nairobi...
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It would count as a major win for supporters of the rapprochement between President Uhuru Kenyatta and former opposition leader Raila Odinga...
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The agreement signed in the Ethiopian border town of Moyale with President Uhuru Kenyatta in December 2020 has clearer and more positive implications for Abiy...