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Trump's predecessor Joe Biden agreed a military deal with Kenyan President William Ruto that designated Kenya as a major non-NATO ally and opened talks with several West African states on military cooperation...
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We hear that convoys of trucks carrying military hardware now move from Mombasa to South Sudan and Darfur via Uganda despite concerns from Kenyan security officials who cannot override President William Ruto's approval...
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Vol 66 No 11 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
A photo-journalist turned activist who has campaigned against corruption and state violence at home Mwangi has made plenty of enemies in Kenya's political class including President William Ruto who filed a defamation lawsuit against Mwangi after being accused of murdering Jacob Juma...
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The launch of Rigathi Gachagua's Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) marks the latest challenge to President William Ruto's standing in central Kenya a region where he claimed 75% of the vote helping secure his victory in August 2022...
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The decision to not introduce new taxes reflects the constraints on President William Ruto since June 2024 Gen Z protests against the multiple tax increases in last year's proposed finance bill...
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Officials from President William Ruto's government have vainly tried to intimidate journalists and activists as they attempt to control the fallout from a BBC Africa Eye documentary Blood Parliament reporting on the storming of parliament in last June's anti-Finance Bill protests...
For a cash-strapped government and a deeply unpopular president William Ruto's five-day trip to China could hardly have gone better...
Referring to solar energy and Chinese smart phones President William Ruto remarked that ‘without China many of these technologies would remain unaffordable for much of the developing world'...
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That will be seized upon by President William Ruto as he seeks to convince a deeply sceptical public counting the costs of higher prices and higher taxes about his government's economic stewardship...
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She has launched the People's Liberation Party (PLP) and plans to contest the 2027 elections as part of the opposition to President William Ruto (AC Vol 66 No 5 The anti-Ruto alliance)...
At the heart of President William Ruto's calculus ahead of his re-election bid in 2027 is a bet that Kenya's economy will have recovered enough to allow him to end austerity and finance a spending boom...
HOW STATE HOUSE BUSINESS UPSETS ALLIANCES William Ruto ascended to the presidency despite lingering questions about the origins of his wealth estimated at over a billion dollars much of which was acquired during his political career...
