Until the death of Raila Amolo Odinga from a heart attack on 15 October President William Samoei Ruto's path to re-election in August 2027 had seemed clear: having turned his back on the central Mount Kenya region he would need Odinga to deliver his Western and Coastal support bases under a pact offering Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) a string of key ministries and perhaps the deputy presidency...
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But it is the failure by city authorities to deliver basic amenities such as refuse collection drainage clearing and decent roads that has prompted crisis talks between President William Ruto the city's lawmakers and Sakaja – and raised the prospect of State House stepping in to take over powers from the local administration...
A bitter rival to incumbent President William Samoei Ruto in the wake of the disputed 2022 elections Odinga reached a rapprochement with him last year which has insulated the government from the mainstream opposition but not from a younger generation of activists on the streets who reject the country's old political class...
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The country's most influential politician not to hold the presidency Odinga was given a state funeral with military honours by his old foe turned ally President William Ruto who delivered the main eulogy...
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Vol 66 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
A handful of African leaders including Kenya's President William Ruto lobbied unsuccessfully for AGOA to be extended on the margins of the UN General Assembly last month...
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And while the state's clampdown on youth activists is unyielding one of the few olive branches held out by President William Ruto is on the brink of breaking...
Few events contributed more to William Ruto's presidential victory in August 2022 than the collapse of the Building Bridges Initiative that April (AC Vol 62 No 17 The bridge collapses & Vol 63 No 8 Supreme Court finally throws out Building Bridges plan)...
They will be the first test of opinion since Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) joined President William Ruto's government...
This may boost Kenya's President William Ruto diplomatically but his attempt to position himself as a campaigner on financial reform and transparency contradicts his government's record on tax particularly of billionaires such as himself...
To ease the cashflow crisis that triggered mass protests and weakened the shilling – as the Treasury used precious dollars to pay its Eurobond debts – President William Ruto's government is looking east seeking to shift foreign loans from dollars to yen and renminbi...