It has agreed a 12-point plan to frame a coalition manifesto with President William Samoei Ruto's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) ahead of general elections next August (AC Vol 67 No 6 The one-party state and its discontents)...

A DEBT SQUEEZE THREATENS AS ELECTIONS LOOM Questions over the sustainability of Kenya's public debt are coming at the worst possible time for President William Ruto as campaigning starts for next August's elections...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Kenya's President William Ruto have secured a raft of financing deals from their close ties to the UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan (MBZ) who is determined to increase Abu Dhabi influence in the region pitting his US and Israeli-backed axis against Turkey and Saudi Arabia (Dispatches 19/1/26 Mogadishu expels Emirati companies over their secessionist ties)...

For President William Ruto the strategic value of such a data centre was outstripped by domestic political considerations...

For Kenya's President William Samoei Ruto building the Mrima Hill rare earth mine is key to his ambition to turn Kenya into a ‘first world economy' modelled on Singapore (AC Vol 67 No 9)...

The ‘how' question may determine the future of the Mrima Hill project which President William Samoei Ruto sees as a test case for the development of Kenya's mining sector...

After concluding that he can win a second term without the votes of central Kenyan votes that his predecessors relied on President William Samoei Ruto is banking on alliances with western and coastal power brokers...