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Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (Nyayo)

Date of Birth: 2 September 1924
Place of Birth: Sacho, Baringo County
Died: 4 February 2020


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Ruto struggles to regain control

‘Wangari Maathai kept pushing for years that's what we will do ' one protester told Africa Confidential referring to the democracy campaigner during Daniel arap Moi's presidency who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (AC Vol 46 No 25 Mwai's muddle)...

The large number of kidnappings cases of torture and murders of activists are a grisly reminder of the tactics used by former President Daniel arap Moi the political mentor of Ruto and his deputy Rigathi Gachagua under whom dissidents were routinely arrested tortured and killed...


One party in a state

A year ago the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) had pretensions of establishing a one-party state modelled on Daniel arap Moi's Kenya African National Union...


Ruto (and Raila's) man in Addis

A career diplomat whose previous postings include the UN the United Kingdom and India Amayo is also a long-standing ally of Odinga who lobbied former President Daniel arap Moi on his behalf for greater representation of the Luo community in government (AC Vol 40 No 5 Up with Biwott)...


After the general crashes, a reshuffle

Most senior Kalenjin officers have closer links to the family of former President Daniel arap Moi whose son Gideon is an opposition politician...


It's the politics that counts

They remember the way that Ruto's political patron President Daniel arap Moi also played communities off against each other to marginalise Mount Kenya...


Judges stand up as Ruto takes them on

Yet Ruto's rhetoric with thinly veiled threats has prompted comparisons with the President's authoritarian mentor Daniel arap Moi...


The one-party state bounces back

A more accurate model would be the Kenya African National Union (KANU) which underpinned Daniel arap Moi's autocratic government and is now led by his son Gideon Moi (AC Vol 64 No 1 The return of one-man rule)...


Electoral Commission goes on trial again

Odinga's camp now say that they don't recognise Ruto as a legitimate president hinting at the kind of political protest that disrupted the authoritarian rule of the late Daniel arap Moi and chronically weakened the economy...


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