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Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta

Date of Birth: 26 October 1961


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Pipeline politics

Presidents Salva Kiir Mayardit and Uhuru Kenyatta reaffirmed their commitment to the Lamu pipeline this month when they met on 23 May in Juba ahead of the African Union Summit in Ethiopia...


Shotgun wedding season

Which of the two major coalitions hastily formed during a long night of matchmaking will prevail is impossible to predict: the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) led by Raila Oginga Odinga or the Jubilee Alliance under Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and William Samoei arap Ruto...


Kilelengwani burns

With Kibaki’s camp split over the succession – whether to back Uhuru Kenyatta or Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi – some strategists argue for another postponement of the elections...


A rough, tough battle ahead

Given how important these elections are for the two leading presidential candidates Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and given the fresh memories of administrative chaos and electoral malpractice in the December 2007 elections tensions will rise between now and March 2013...


Ethnic arithmetic

Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta should both poll 25-30% with Mudavadi William Ruto and Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka running third to fifth...

Yet if fought fairly it would probably result in Odinga’s victory since most Luhya Kalenjin pastoral and Coastal swing voters would support anyone but another (third) Kikuyu president especially one with as much ethnic and dynastic baggage as Uhuru Kenyatta...


Saitoti’s death leaves a gap

His secretariat was headed by a fellow academic Peter Kagwanja an erstwhile crony of the former Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta...


Kibaki nervous over ICC

An unexpected cabinet reshuffle at the end of March brought clear signs that the influence of the ‘G-7’ alliance led by the suspects Uhuru Kenyatta and William arap Ruto extends into State House (AC Vol 52 No 15 Succession not reform)...


Kibaki loses his peers

Michuki last year endorsed the suspended Finance Minister and International Criminal Court (ICC) suspect Uhuru Kenyatta as heir to the leadership in Kikuyuland...

The Group of Seven is a multi-ethnic grouping around Uhuru Kenyatta and Kalenjin supremo and fellow ICC indictee William Ruto in their bid to avert an Odinga presidency...


The Hague changes the game

President Mwai Kibaki ignored calls from civil society groups for the resignations of two ICC indictees: the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta 50 and the head of the civil service Francis Kirimi Muthaura 65...


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