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Kenya

Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta

Date of Birth: 26 October 1961


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The return of one-man rule

While there are no public indications that the vendetta with his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta is settled Ruto's surprise win in last August's elections by the slimmest of margins is now a footnote of history (AC Vol 63 No 17 Election chief proclaims Ruto victory but most of his commissioners dispute it)...


Scrambling for a Pax Swahili

A truce signed in Luanda with only the tacit participation of the principal antagonist guaranteed by a phone call between Kenya's former President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwanda's Paul Kagame and enforced by the threat of joint-force military intervention from a contingent yet to take up its fighting positions appears to have suspended at least temporarily the M23's plans to capture Goma...


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Courts press pause on President Ruto's administration

This will test Ruto's stated support for an independent judiciary which had faced heavy pressure under his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta...

This compares to the 42 PS posts in the Uhuru Kenyatta administration which was seen as bloated a decade ago when public finances were far stronger...

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Kenya plays lead role in Congo intervention

Ruto has chosen his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta to lead on the diplomacy as he did in the recent Ethiopia peace talks and like them it could boost Kenya's standing in the region encouraged – for different reasons – by the European Union the United Arab Emirates and the United States...

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Ruto and Odinga loyalists battle over election body

The four dissident commissioners were appointed by Uhuru Kenyatta last September and their seven-year term runs until September 2027 weeks after the next scheduled presidential election...


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