William Samoei Ruto's rise to the presidency in August 2022 was framed as a David and Goliath story in which the underdog ‘hustler' – Ruto – defeated Kenya's political and business oligarchs against the odds...
President William Samoei Ruto announced the fixture by executive order on 28 October...
Vol 67 No 22 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
Ghana's John Dramani Mahama Kenya's William Samoei Ruto and South Sudan's Salva Kiir Mayardit along with Egypt's Abdel Fattah el Sisi Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (both Rosatom clients) all held bilateral meetings with Putin...
DISPATCHES
Dangote has agreed plans with Kenya's President William Samoei Ruto to build a $16bn oil refinery in the port city Lamu the biggest in a series of Dangote projects in cement fertiliser and oil across East Africa (Dispatches 5/10/26 Dangote breaks ground on $16bn Kenyan refinery as legal challenges linger)...
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Less than two years after President William Samoei Ruto's narrow defeat of Raila Amolo Odinga in August 2022 the Gen Z protests redrew the political map pulling Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) into a de facto unity coalition (AC Vol 66 No 15 Gen Z protestors vie with old politics)...
DISPATCHES
President William Samoei Ruto's government has promised to cap increases...
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Petrol prices have become a flashpoint for public anger over the rising cost of living under President William Ruto...
His connections included Kenya's William Samoei Ruto Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan and Eswatini's King Mswati III...
CHIVAYO – ‘A FELLOW IN MANY PLACES ALL AT ONCE' Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto's tribute to Wicknell Chivayo as a ‘dear friend' confirmed the Zimbabwean businessman's standing in Nairobi but did not resolve the questions surrounding his business ambitions there...
Vol 67 No 20 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
After meeting Kiir in Nairobi on 5 October Kenya's President William Samoei Ruto pledged support for the electoral preparations and urged ‘dialogue among all parties...
DISPATCHES
Vol 67 No 20 |
- KENYA
- NIGERIA
The commercial stakes for Nigerian magnate Aliko Dangote and the political bet by Kenya's President William Ruto are critical in what would be the east African country's biggest and costliest project...
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Vol 67 No 20 |
- KENYA
- WHO'S WHO
Most of all she opposes his attempts to strike a deal that would give President William Samoei Ruto a second term next August...
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