The sacking of Edwin Sifuna as Secretary-General of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is a desperate attempt by party leader Oburu Odinga to contain divisions but risks breaking up the party and helping President William Ruto (AC Vol 67 No 2 NEWSMAKER: Oburu Odinga awkward caretaker)...
That President William Ruto and President Samia Suluhu Hassan were among the first to congratulate Museveni on his re-election was unsurprising...
President William Ruto is bullish...
Kenya was also prominent on the Somaliland recognition list given the close ties between President William Ruto and the UAE's Mohammed bin Zayed...
Vol 67 No 2 |
- KENYA
- WHO'S WHO
ODM was already split over whether to prop up President William Ruto's government until the in August 2027 elections and further still on whether to back Ruto for a second term...
An early test will be internal elections in William Ruto's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) – initially supposed to take place in mid-2024 but which will now happen on 10 January...
DISPATCHES
The data sharing aspect of the Kenya deal has been used by petitioners to obtain a Nairobi court injunction preventing William Ruto's government from ratifying it pending a Supreme Court ruling...
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DISPATCHES
The deal announced on 4 December to coincide with President William Ruto's presence in Washington DC as a guarantor of the peace agreement between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda is part of the Trump administration's ‘America First Global Health Strategy' launched in September...
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Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye's stock had risen after he and Kenya's President William Ruto were invited to the signing of the peace deal in Washington...
President William Ruto and his semi-official allies in the late Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) enjoyed a bumper by-election day on 27 November winning 16 of the 24 seats contested and retaining all those they previously held...
Beyond the usual speeches by party grandees the main event was an invitation-only dinner attended by President William Ruto whose presidency is opposed by roughly half of ODM...
