Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has a clearly defined portfolio quite different from Ruto's position in President Uhuru Kenyatta's second term when he had no specified role and was effectively sidelined from government...
Neither Odinga nor former President Uhuru Kenyatta cultivated successors; that presents an opportunity for younger local leaders ahead of 2027...
It is likely to rise again after a flurry of unbudgeted spending in the final days of Uhuru Kenyatta's presidency...
The ICC had charged Ruto President Uhuru Kenyatta and four others in 2011 with crimes against humanity bankrolling and organising the deadly violence after the 2007 elections...
Another minor positive is that all parties seem willing to extend the peace process beyond Obasanjo adding Kenya's outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta while formalising supporting roles for Hammer his European Union counterpart Annette Weber and the UN Secretary-General's Horn of Africa special representative Hanna Tetteh a former foreign minister of Ghana widely seen as one of the more effective of the UN envoys...
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A day after his inauguration Ruto witnessed the swearing in of six judges that his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta had declined to appoint...
The fuel and food subsidies introduced by outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta would have cost another 280 billion shillings (U$2...
With the support of President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Mount Kenya business elite this represented his last and best chance...
Reminiscent of Uhuru Kenyatta's 2013 accession it has also created a group of high-profile political 'orphans' from government ministries and the security services...
Besides Azimio is hoping that President Uhuru Kenyatta – who endorsed Odinga – will delay the sitting of the new Parliament until after the Supreme Court ruling on 5 September...
United States Senator Chris Coons was dispatched to Nairobi for meetings with Ruto his opposition rival Raila Odinga and outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta following the official announcement of the 9 August election results but Borrell's is the first major diplomatic visit since Ruto's victory was confirmed by the Supreme Court on 5 September...