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Vol 66 No 19

Published 26th September 2025


Kenya

A referendum redux

Many see the constitutional reform bill as a means for leaders to carve out new jobs and entrench their political control

Few events contributed more to William Ruto’s presidential victory in August 2022 than the collapse of the Building Bridges Initiative that April. The product of a 2018 handshake between opposition leader Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta, BBI sought to carve up power between them by creating the new positions of Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition.

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