President William Ruto was caught off guard by the backlash to the planned facility at the Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki near the foothills of Mount Kenya and close to a British military training base...

Even a year ago few would have imagined that Kisumu Kenya's main port city on Lake Victoria and late opposition leader Raila Odinga's fiefdom for four decades would host a rally of more than 10 000 people for President William Ruto...

Rounding off this season France will host the G7 summit in Évian on 15-17 June where Kenya's President William Ruto will represent the African Union states and the agenda includes an attempt to ‘redefine how international partnerships currently operate' (AC Vol 67 No 3 Rich economies turn off the aid tap)...

Zubairu and Kenya's President William Ruto signed an agreement for Nairobi to host the AFC's new East African arm...

Gachagua who has formed his Democracy for the Citizens Party and cast himself as President William Ruto's main rival in central Kenya filed the case to overturn his impeachment more than a year ago...

President William Ruto has told allies he expects to win the 2027 general election ‘with a two to three million vote margin ' confident that his record of international grandstanding and commissioning new projects will mobilise the voters...

THE PRICE OF THE ‘AFRICA FORWARD' DEALS As the dust settles on the ‘Africa Forward' summit co-hosted by President William Ruto and French President Emmanuel Macron the price of Ruto's diplomatic triumph – and Macron's promise of billions in new commercial investment – is becoming clearer (AC Vol 67 No 10 Ruto strengthens hand as Nairobi summit marks Macron's African swansong)...

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...