Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta

' On 6 July Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta announced an easing of lockdown lifting the curb on travel in and out of the key cities of Nairobi and Mombasa but keeping the 9pm to 4am curfew in place (AC Vol 61 No 7 Locking down politics)...

In a nod to President Uhuru Kenyatta's legacy plans almost 200 billion shillings ($2bn) of extra spending is to be allocated to his 'Big Four' objectives although more than half of it has been earmarked for health coverage and small sums for housing and manufacturing (AC Vol 61 No 12)...

When Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the nation on 4 June he outlined a dilemma facing many governments...

For the first time in three years President Uhuru Kenyatta invited all 404 Jubilee Party legislators – 337 MPs and 67 Senators – to a parliamentary group meeting at State House on 2 June...

In the clearest indications yet that President Uhuru Kenyatta is determined to remove the succession from his deputy William Ruto State House has moved to purge the party's leadership of Ruto allies in the Senate...

The big tent gets bigger When Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta ended their post-election hostilities with a handshake in 2018 'betrayal' was the cry from Odinga's former allies in the National Super Alliance (Nasa) – even though they had been holding their own talks with President Kenyatta (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...

At a heated special session of the Senate government supporters led ironically by opposition lawmakers now cosy with the executive under the terms of the Uhuru Kenyatta–Raila Odinga pact defended the move as a necessary evil...

Last year President Uhuru Kenyatta allocated to both Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardiit land in Naivasha to construct their own dry ports...

County governors have been targets in the Jubilee party's civil war between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto (AC Vol 61 No 6 The fight for Jubilee)...

One likely casualty will be the constitutional changes advocated by the new alliance between President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga (AC Vol 60 No 24 Building shaky bridges)...

Communications between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto have been close to total breakdown for some months and relations are hardly likely to be improved by threats of impeachment against Ruto...