The IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati formerly a candidate with Odinga's old Orange Democratic Movement challenged the decision of the High Court only after being told to do so we hear by Solicitor General Njee Muturi a close ally of President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Jubilee Party (AC Vol 58 No 6 Poll calendar under pressure)...
Given Kenya's presidential race will be dominated by just two men – President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga – the expectations raised by opinion polls and media reporting of them will have powerful resonance...
Vol 58 No 12 |
- KENYA
- ELECTIONS
The data analytics company that is widely credited with having swung Donald Trump's shock win in last November's US presidential poll and the 'Leave' vote in the United Kingdom referendum on European Union membership through its digital targeting campaigns Cambridge Analytica carries on its website photographs of former and current clients including the late South African President Nelson Mandela and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (AC Blog Cyberwar goes to the polls)...
President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Jubilee Party of Kenya can feel the breath of the serial presidential candidate Raila Amolo Odinga on the back of his neck...
Many heard Farmajo promise to defeat the Islamist insurgents of Al Shabaab in two years including United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May and her Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson; May's Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim head of the ruling Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party); United States Defense Secretary James Mattis; Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta; Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni; Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia and Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat the new African Union Chairperson (AC Vol 58 No 4 MPs reject foreigners' choice & Vol 58 No 3 The scramble for the chair)...
Because President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' cannot impose his decisions on Hir-Shabelle he had to call Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to ask him to ban any khat flights to Jowhar...
Vol 58 No 10 |
- AFRICA
- EUROPE
In Kenya BTP Advisers are understood to have been re-appointed to take charge of local and international communications for President Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto in the lead-up to August's general elections...
President Uhuru Kenyatta is demanding that Parliament pass a supplementary budget bill to complete the near-impossible task of 'bringing down basic food prices and cost of living' which opinion polls indicate is the chief concern of the Kenyan elector...
The next day President Uhuru Kenyatta blamed the chaos on an 'unprecedented' turnout...
For a candidate who is way ahead of his rivals in the opinion polls President Uhuru Kenyatta strikes the pose of a surprisingly angry and intemperate man...