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After his cabinet secretary nominations sailed through parliament despite integrity and competence questions over many of them President William Ruto faces a roadblock to his plans to reward loyalists in his Kenya Kwanza alliance with the next layer of government jobs...
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Pledging more support for the 'Nairobi Peace Process' President William Ruto met with his counterpart Félix Tshisekedi on 21 November to underline Nairobi's economic and security interests in the success of the East African Community's intervention in easter Congo-Kinshasa...
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Electoral disputes have returned to centre-stage after allies of President William Ruto are already calling for term limits on the presidency to be abandoned given the incumbent 55 is 'still a young man'...
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President William Ruto's government has secured an endorsement from the IMF on 8 November giving it access to some US$433 million out of its three-year $2...
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Keen to honour his campaign debts and with apparently little concern over the integrity of his nominees President William Ruto has sworn in a 24-member cabinet that is heavy on loyalists light on technocrats and brimming with inexperience (AC Vol 63 No 20 Loyalty trumps all in Ruto's cabinet)...
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In Kenya President William Ruto has watered down his election campaign plans to offer concessional loans to small businesses and announced plans to sell off shares in parastatals in order to raise funds (AC Vol 63 No 21 The hustler backs austerity)...
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President William Ruto's grand and expensive promises of a 'bottom up' economy replete with new financial support for small businesses and farmers has quickly fallen foul of economic reality...
Vol 63 No 21 |
- KENYA
- UGANDA
That managed to upset both Kenya's erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga and the eventual election winner William Ruto who has been assiduously cultivating Museveni for the past five years...
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'Freedom is coming' was the mantra of President William Ruto's successful election campaign...
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After a narrow election win and a slim majority of MPs backing him in parliament President William Ruto is taking no chances with his first cabinet...
Raila elder statesman of the opposition Less than a month after President William Ruto broke the hold of Kenya's political dynasties it is unclear who is steering the opposition ship...