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In 2022 Ruto's predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta had been on the brink of an agreement to run operations at the three major ports only for the idea to be shelved following Ruto's victory in August's presidential election...
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In 2015 British Prime Minister David Cameron and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta agreed to a revamp of the British-Kenya defence pact which included provisions that British soldiers accused of lawbreaking would be tried in Kenya be subject to Kenyan law for any infractions outside their base and that British military sites would be subject to Kenyan inspection (AC Vol 56 No 21 Uhuru's frequent flyer card)...
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Vol 64 No 17 |
- KENYA
- SOMALIA
Throughout and since the ICJ process Kenya has pushed for a regionally-brokered solution seeking to bring in the African Union while Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi was asked by former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to act as a mediator...
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Of the new IMF lending $415 million comes from the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and Expanded Credit Facility (ECF) programmes that were first agreed with President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2021 and designed to shore up the economy and boost Kenya's foreign exchange reserves...
Having inherited a debt burden running at 68% of GDP compared to the record low of 38% bequeathed to former President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto by Mwai Kibaki's government in 2012 and a debt repayment burden that is frontloaded in 2023 and 2024 Ruto has chosen belt-tightening...
Monica Juma foreign minister and energy minister during Uhuru Kenyatta's presidency was one of the few senior officials to be retained by Ruto and remains influential as national security adviser (AC Vol 63 No 20 Loyalty trumps all in Ruto's cabinet)...
In Kenya President William Ruto argues that he was handed a dismal set of public accounts by predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta marked by expensive infrastructure projects and a steeply rising debt burden...
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President Uhuru Kenyatta's government proposed a similar scheme but it was challenged in the courts and then quietly abandoned...
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Former President Uhuru Kenyatta had appeared intent on retiring from politics...
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Plans by Ruto's predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta to introduce a 1...
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That was three years after he was dismissed along with finance minister Henry Rotich from his post as principal treasury secretary in Uhuru Kenyatta's administration...
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