There was enough mutual self-interest measured in €23 billion (US$27bn) of commercial deals and diplomatic positioning ahead of the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains in June to make the grandiose Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi on 11-12 May worthwhile for co-hosts Kenya's President William Samoei Ruto and France's Emmanuel Macron...

Never one to forget personal slights President William Ruto may applaud Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei's motion seeking to strip former President Uhuru Kenyatta of his retirement benefits...

William Samoei Ruto opened the Africa Finance Corporation summit on 23 April in Nairobi last week flanked by Nigeria's Aliko Dangote and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni – a tableau to show Kenya's president as a regional powerbroker and an investment magnet...

President William Ruto's sales pitch to Italian politicians and business leaders went down well even if some of his claims strained credulity...

Either way relations between the RSF leadership and President William Ruto's government remain close much to the anger of the Sudanese government in Khartoum...

He made it clear that he wants to negotiate a coalition with President William Ruto – with ODM taking the deputy presidency – ahead of the August 2027 general elections (AC Vol 67 No 6 The one-party state and its discontents)...

On 10 March President William Ruto fired the starter's gun on coalition talks with the Orange Democratic Movement in the traditional Kenyan way – by setting up a committee...

Although President William Ruto's government has not followed Tanzania and Uganda in shutting down or throttling internet access it has introduced a series of reforms to media and communications laws (AC Vol 66 No 13 As protests mount state repression goes regional)...

Yet Aziz's rise within Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party and his links to Kenya's President William Ruto Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and President Hassan have raised concerns...

Pundits are calling the NMG purchase ‘William Ruto's project'...

RMS's national-language stations aimed at rural Kenyans who speak neither Swahili nor English were weaponised against President William Ruto in the run-up to the 2022 election and accused of inciting ethnic tensions particularly among Kikuyu and Kalenjin communities (AC Vol 63 No 2 The politics of division)...