The failure to pay the March wages of civil servants teachers and politicians has blown a hole in the economic management record of President William Ruto's government after just over six months in office...
Beyond wide-ranging calls for a ceasefire from UN Secretary General António Guterres and multiple governments the most substantive attempts at mediation are being orchestrated by the Trilateral Mechanism which groups IGAD the AU and the UN Integrated Transition Mechanism in Sudan and a regional effort by Kenya's President William Ruto South Sudan and Djibouti...
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Last week President William Ruto's chief economic advisor David Ndii conceded that the Treasury is facing an acute cashflow crisis that has unprecedentedly delayed public service salaries but insisted that the government could meet its repayments (AC Vol 63 No 19 Ruto plays the economy blame-game)...
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Mohamed is reported to have told Guterres that Kenya's President William Ruto is 'ruthless' and that she does not trust him...
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After winning a commitment by President William Ruto to debate reform of the electoral commission in parliament opposition leader Raila Odinga is demanding that the talks should include parties from outside parliament and the agenda should include an audit of August 2022 elections...
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Initially it seemed that President William Ruto's government would blame the economic costs of the SGR on the profligacy of its predecessor led by Uhuru Kenyatta...
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President William Ruto continues to win over supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga in his traditional strongholds in Nyanza (AC Vol 64 No 6 The one-party state bounces back)...
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With President William Ruto continuing to eat into Odinga's Azimio la Umoja coalition and refusing to offer Odinga any formal political role the veteran opposition leader is coming under heavy pressure (Dispatches 10/1/23 How the opposition is trying to pick up the pieces)...
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After painstakingly building an alliance of mainly small parties to carry him to power last year President William Ruto is determined to subsume them all into his victorious United Democratic Alliance (UDA)...
She has also been to Oman Doha Egypt (for COP 27) and received the new Kenyan President William Ruto before going to China and the United States meeting President Joe Biden and doing deals with the major international financial institutions...
