While both sides use cyber-warriors it is the governing Jubilee party that has most used data-mining hiring the disgraced Cambridge Analytica to coordinate its online campaigns in the 2013 and 2017 elections running for example smear campaigns linking opposition leader Raila Odinga to threats of violence (AC Vol 60 No 15 Spinner caught in web)...
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President Uhuru Kenyatta and his ally erstwhile oppositionist Raila Odinga are yet to reveal their alternative plans – but they don't include the Deputy President...
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Conceived three years ago after the 'handshake' between Kenyatta and veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga following disputed elections in 2017 BBI was marketed as a solution to the 'winner-takes-all' ethnic discord that has blighted elections since the return of multi-party democracy in 1991 (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...
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President Uhuru Kenyatta and 'handshake' partner Raila Odinga have paved the way for their constitutional reform package to speed through parliament with a referendum to be held within two months should the Court of Appeal agree this week that it can be salvaged...
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Nasa has existed in name only since Raila Odinga was co-opted into President Uhuru Kenyatta's government via the 'handshake' deal in 2018 in which he abandoned the allies that had supported his unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 2012 and 2018 (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...
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Vol 62 No 14 |
- KENYA
- UGANDA
Despite a lack of independent evidence the Deputy President's team briefed journalists that Museveni favours a Ruto presidency over Raila Odinga and that an endorsement is on the way...
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A Ruto victory depends on the Kikuyu popular vote shifting to Ruto (a Kalenjin) and away from President Kenyatta and his ally Raila Odinga...
Yet that has not stopped Kenyatta himself politicking with Raila Odinga via the Building Bridges Initiative a constitutional reform project...
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Judges sat for five consecutive days at the Appeal Court to review the 14 May High Court ruling that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) at the centre of the alliance between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga would breach the constitution (AC Vol 62 No 11 Picking up the pieces)...
It doubles as a constitutional overhaul that expands government and a political deal to carve up power between President Kenyatta and 'handshake' partner Raila Odinga (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...
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For loyalists of Raila Odinga his electoral negotiations with President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Jubilee party are the logical conclusion of their celebrated handshake deal which ended hostilities after the contested results of the 2017 election...
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After the 2018 public reconciliation between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga – known simply as the 'handshake' – the BBI was sold as a blueprint to end the 'winner-takes-all' tribal discord that has accompanied every election since the advent of multi-party democracy (AC Vol 61 No 23 A divisive plan for unity)...
