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Bill Clinton (Born: William Jefferson Blythe III)

Date of Birth: 19 August 1946


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Ruto revels in the western embrace

The visit headlined by a state dinner for Ruto on Thursday with some 500 guests including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama is a culmination of Ruto's diplomatic efforts since winning the Kenyan presidency in August 2022 (AC Vol 65 No 7 A one-man diplomatic mission)...


Abacha consigliere in storm over $11 billion superhighway linking Lagos and Calabar

Once convicted in Geneva for laundering money stolen by military leader Sani Abacha and in the United States for illegal political contributions these days Chagoury is feted by France's President Emmanuel Macron and ex-US President Bill Clinton and most of all by Nigeria's Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a philanthropist (AC Vol 65 No 13 Tinubu summons the ghosts of Abacha's kleptocracy)...

Four years earlier Chagoury who owns a substantial villa in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles donated $460 000 to the Democratic Party in the US attending a fund-raising dinner with President Bill Clinton...


No end to the legal opposition's long vigil

But even though he and not Biya received the official invitation to attend President Bill Clinton's inauguration he was never able to capitalise on the popular and international support to unsettle Biya not least because Biya then had the full support of France...


Lobby shops curry favour

Case in point is Rational PR a lobby shop with former press secretary to President Bill Clinton Joe Lockhart which Kenya has hired on a $600 000 retainer according to filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act...


Sanctions test for Trump

The pivotal involvement of the NCP (then still the National Islamic Front) in hosting financing and training domestic and foreign Islamist terrorists including Usama bin Laden made US Democrat President Bill Clinton impose sanctions in 1997...


A last blast for sanctions

Human rights and counter-terrorismUS sanctions were first imposed by President Bill Clinton in 1997 for human rights abuses in the South and terrorist activity in the North (AC Vol 41 No 13 Hall of mirrors & Vol 39 No 17 Washington's military option)...


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