The international community was quick to accept the offer by Kenya's President William Ruto in July for around 1 000 of his police officers to lead a mission to train and support the Haitian police in their battles against criminal gangs on the Caribbean state (AC Vol 64 No 16 Kenyan cops vs Haitian gangs)...

While Tshisekedi has received congratulations from regional leaders including Kenya's William Ruto Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan there has been silence from the United States and Europe so far...

Burhan meanwhile cited Hemeti's friendly relationship with Kenyan President William Ruto as the reason for rejecting Ruto as the lead mediator for the regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) (AC Vol 64 No 21 Politics in a time of war)...

President William Ruto's government has signed a trade deal with the European Union which Brussels has described as its most advanced with an African state on climate change and labour rights...

It is a quiet start to privatisation plans which sit alongside a raft of new taxes on income and goods and services as the main new revenue sources that President William Ruto's government is hoping for as it prioritises debt repayments including a $2 billion Eurobond repayment due next year...

In July President William Ruto's government offered to train and assist the Haitian National Police in the Caribbean state's battle against criminal gangs (AC Vol 64 No 16 K enyan cops vs Haitian gangs)...

That could explain the presence in Riyadh of Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki and South Sudan's Salva Kiir in addition to regional heavyweights including Nigerian President Bola Tinubu Kenyan President William Ruto Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Ethiopian premier Abiy Ahmed...