There were cheers at the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi in May when he announced an agreement with Kenya's President William Ruto to build an oil refinery producing 650 000 barrels a day (b/d) (AC Vol 67 No 9 Ruto stakes his presidency on a $39bn investment blitz)...
He is close to Kenyan President William Ruto...
Burhan's hostility towards Kenya's President William Samoei Ruto whom he accuses of harbouring and providing financial support for the RSF's Hemeti and his brothers is mounting (AC Vol 67 No 8 Ruto's RSF ties under scrutiny)...
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President William Ruto's expulsion of Tata Chemicals for failing to deliver on promises to create local industry fits with his promises that Kenyans will benefit from the country's minerals...
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KENYA: Opposition leaders Rigathi Gachagua and Edwin Sifuna are touring the United States to court diaspora support and funding for their bid to unseat President William Ruto next August...
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)...
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4 billion in external finance over the next year are widening across President William Ruto's economic policy team ahead of a new round of talks with the IMF on a new loan programme in the coming weeks...
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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)...
