Ruto has long claimed that the 2018 'handshake' between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Orange Democratic Movement leader Odinga derailed the second term of the Jubilee government of Kenyatta and Ruto...
Election year promises to ramp up debt Kenyan Treasury Secretary Ukur Yatani brought forward the final budget of Uhuru Kenyatta's presidency by two months in a bid to ensure that the government's tax and spending plans are passed by the National Assembly well before August's general elections...
The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) was the most tangible policy outcome of the 2018 'handshake' between President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga but on 31 March the Supreme Court administered its last rites (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...
A few Americans and Britons were shocked to hear Ruto describe his boss President Uhuru Kenyatta as a 'squatter' or 'refugee' in the opposition...
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Inflows of fresh cash could help establish President Uhuru Kenyatta's legacy of mega-projects and may also help his favoured candidate Raila Odinga...
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They pinned the blame on the inflammatory ethnic-centred rhetoric of the capricious politicians and the leadership of President Uhuru Kenyatta...
The presidential election campaign is already stirring up divisions between Ruto's Kalenjin Odinga's Luo community and the Kikuyu of President Uhuru Kenyatta...
Vol 63 No 4 |
- EAST AFRICA
President Uhuru Kenyatta's planned legacy of new motorways ports and railways as he nears the end of his final term has increased government spending by 8...
President Uhuru Kenyatta's government is trying again to secure the Commonwealth Secretary-General post running an energetic campaign on behalf of its candidate Monica Juma...
Vol 63 No 3 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Voter verdictIn August voters in Angola and Kenya both countries hit by rising debt service burdens and slowing growth will cast their verdict on the performance of the João Lourenço and Uhuru Kenyatta governments (AC Vol 63 No 1 The opposition sees a new chance)...
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The loss of Mudavadi is a heavy blow to Odinga the ODM leader and the establishment candidate backed by President Uhuru Kenyatta...
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After filibusters and fisticuffs in parliament before Christmas President Uhuru Kenyatta and his chosen successor Raila Odinga got what they wanted on 8 January when the National Assembly passed the key provisions of a law designed to skew the rules for the August presidential election in their favour (AC Vol 63 No 1 Hustlers and handshakes)...