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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...
There will be a slow rise in GDP growth but this will not mask the reality of an economy in trouble more corruption scandals rising poverty and ethnic political bickering under the unlikely coalition of President Uhuru Kenyatta and nominal opposition leader Raila Odinga (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...
Vol 61 No 25 |
- KENYA
- SOMALIA
Somalia announced it was cutting diplomatic ties on 15 December the day after Muse Bihi the leader of the semi-autonomous Somaliland arrived in Nairobi for talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta...
Another fake story published on the masthead of The Standard newspaper had Gicheru alleging that Ruto was behind the 2013 death of outspoken Makueni Senator and former justice minister Mutula Kilonzo who had loudly questioned the eligibility of the Uhuru Kenyatta-Ruto 2013 presidential ticket on moral and constitutional grounds (AC Vol 53 No 8 Kibaki nervous over ICC)...
Three years after President Uhuru Kenyatta won re-election in polls boycotted by opposition leader Raila Odinga the two erstwhile rivals sat on a red-carpeted podium at the Bomas of Kenya venue to launch the long-awaited Building Bridges Initiative report on constitutional reforms...
Further still while months ago there were strong indications that President Uhuru Kenyatta would be pushed by his family into running as an executive prime minister – colloquially known as 'ka-Putin' – the report contains no such clauses...
President Uhuru Kenyatta's government insists it will not take advantage of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) offered by the Group of 20 wealthy nations to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 (AC Vol 61 No 9 AU pushes Africa bonds)...