William Samoei arap Ruto

Slow to form a new cabinet – it took over a month for President Kenyatta and his Vice-President William Ruto to complete the announcement of its 18 ministers – the Jubilee government was immediately beset by a series of disputes over cash...

The announcement by the International Criminal Court on 3 June that it could try William Ruto Kenya’s Deputy President in East Africa rather than at the Hague appears to be a response to an African Union resolution calling for ICC cases to be brought back to Africa...

Previously Whitehall had insisted that official relations with Kenyatta and Vice-President William Ruto would be limited to ‘essential contacts’: both face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court...

On 23 April Kenyatta and his deputy William Samoei arap Ruto stood in their shirtsleeves and matching ties on the stairs of State House to announce the first four of the 18 cabinet appointments...

He achieved it by engineering a partnership between his fellow Kikuyu and the Kalenjin of his running mate William Ruto in the Jubilee Alliance...

Jubilee’s vice-presidential candidate William Ruto claimed that foreign agents were behind the decision...

The Kenyan elections and the International Criminal Court case against presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto pose serious challenges to foreign business...

While Moi’s stature has waned with the coming of William Ruto it is significant that his second son KANU Chairman Gideon Moi has all but secured the family’s native Baringo County in the gubernatorial race (AC Vol 39 No 23 Before the storm)...

It did though subject the candidates’ often surreal policy promises to critical scrutiny and raise directly the charges against presidential aspirant Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto...

Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka joined Odinga to form the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) while William Kipchirchir Samoei arap Ruto is with Kenyatta in the Jubilee Alliance (AC Vol 54 No 1 A race to the bottom)...