Josep Borrell the European Union's High Representative will become the first western leader to congratulate Kenya's President-elect William Ruto in person when he visits on 10 September...
Only the Supreme Court stands in the way of Deputy President William Ruto's final trouncing of his establishment foes in State House the big media organisations and many of the corporate barons around President Uhuru Kenyatta...
Passions have been running high since 15 August when IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati announced that Deputy President William Ruto had won the presidential election by 50...
Small wonder that the two main sides former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto are said to be paying stratospheric fees to their legal advisors who include some of the country's most eminent jurists...
President-elect William Ruto's legal team will be spearheaded by Fred Ngatia who was part of the Jubilee/IEBC legal team defending the 2017 results...
Vol 63 No 17 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
The vast sums owed to China by Sudan Djibouti Ethiopia and Kenya mean those countries have little room to manoeuvre in their relations with Beijing although the election victory of William Ruto in Kenya may undermine Chinese influence...
While the row over the presidential election is set to end up in the Supreme Court gains by Deputy President William Ruto's coalition in parliamentary county assembly and governorship elections have redrawn Kenya's political map...
WHERE RUTO REDREW THE MAP The contest between former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto for the presidency was the closest in Kenyan history and shook politics to its foundations...
It took two delayed attempts and the intervention of riot police before election chief Wafula Chebukati could announce that Deputy President William Ruto had won the presidential elections with 50...
Deputy President and now President-elect William Ruto told the Bomas meeting that it was a wonderful evening and that: 'The IEBC (Electoral and Boundaries Commission) led by Wafula Chebukati was the hero of this election...
Earlier in the day activists across the country gathered to celebrate what they thought would be the certain victory of their favoured presidential candidates: supporters of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in Kisumu and Deputy President William Ruto in the Rift Valley...
Both Deputy President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga claim they have the momentum to become Kenya's fifth president since independence in 1963...
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Deputy President William Ruto asked European diplomats how a million names many from his political strongholds could have been removed from the register...
Tensions between the Commission and the Executive and between the Commission and the two leading presidential candidates Deputy President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga have been building for months...
Ahead of the 9 August presidential elections former prime minister Raila Odinga has eked out a narrow opinion poll lead over Deputy President William Ruto in recent weeks but neither candidate would command a clear majority in parliament according to the latest surveys...
DISPATCHES
Some such as former anti-corruption tsar John Githongo argue it is Kenya's first election about nothing – that is there no marked differences in the policies of the two front-running candidates Deputy Prime Minister William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
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