And the traders' protests over China Square last month revived some of the nationalistic lines in President William Ruto's election campaign last year when he pledged that all Chinese workers without official documents would be deported...

It had been secured from him by former President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2018 as part of the 'handshake' deal that marginalised then Deputy President William Ruto and set the scene for Odinga's unsuccessful bid for the presidency in August 2022 (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...

These included revealed hacking techniques targeting three aides close to President William Ruto...

During last year's election campaign William Ruto had complained that some of Kenyatta's aides had tried to block his path to the presidency (AC Vol 63 No 22 A different kind of cronyism & Vol 63 No 18 Kenyatta's securocrats cast into the cold)...

Yet President William Ruto's government keen to boost the country's haulage and trucking sector wants to drop the policy compelling big companies use the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR...

Formed by the infamous 'handshake' between Kenyatta and Raila Odinga in 2018 Azimio brought together Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and the rump of the Jubilee party formed by Kenyatta and his successor William Ruto along with a group of smaller parties led by Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...

The failure of Kenyatta's wing of Jubilee in the Rift Valley and central Kenya to deliver a significant chunk of votes to Odinga was a main reason for his defeat by William Ruto in presidential elections last August (AC Vol 63 No 17 How the hustlers toppled the dynasties)...