As he does so Ruto has centralised foreign policy and diplomacy in the hands of State House and Musalia Mudavadi his Prime Cabinet Secretary who had the foreign ministry added to his portfolio last October (AC Vol 64 No 21 Ruto's reshuffle rewards the technocrats)...
As it stands Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi is most likely to have his de facto prime minister job made formal...
Rumours that he would be dropped from the 2027 ticket began within months of him taking office in 2022 and intensified last October when Ruto added the Foreign Ministry to Musalia Mudavadi's Prime Cabinet Secretary Portfolio...
Vol 65 No 5 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi and East African Community Secretary General Peter Mathuki have been tasked with leading the diplomatic campaign for votes among the 54 other AU states...
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Vol 65 No 3 |
- EAST AFRICA
Over the weekend Kenya's foreign minister Musalia Mudavadi was forced to deny reports that relations between his government and Sudan have deteriorated in part because of President William Ruto's relationship with Hemeti...
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Vol 65 No 2 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
Tanzania's foreign minister January Makamba and Kenyan counterpart Musalia Mudavadi are set to hold emergency talks to resolve the latest tit-for-tat trade row between Nairobi and Arusha...
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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been gradually sidelined while Musalia Mudavadi with foreign affairs now part of his prime cabinet secretary portfolio has become the key figure in Ruto's government (AC Vol 64 No 21 Ruto's reshuffle rewards the technocrats)...
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi is the main winner adding the Foreign Affairs Ministry to his portfolio replacing Alfred Mutua who was moved to the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife...
Meanwhile the steady Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has emerged as the administration's international ambassador-at-large while the less experienced Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is focused on domestic matters...
PromisesTo build his Kenya Kwanza coalition Ruto promised senior positions to a handful of regional and ethnic kingpins the most prominent of which were the two Luhya leaders: Amani National Congress's (ANC) Musalia Mudavadi now prime cabinet secretary and National Assembly Speaker Ford Kenya's Moses Wetangula (AC Vol 63 No 22 A different kind of cronyism)...
At the top of the league table is Chief Minister Musalia Mudavadi 62 the most experienced politician in the team with a declared net worth of KSh4bn ($33m) accumulated during his 33 years on and off in the cabinet...
