Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta

Although overshadowed by President Uhuru Kenyatta's annual State of the Nation address on 4 April the political establishment came together in a rare episode of bipartisanship to launch the government's new biometric identity card Huduma Namba (literally 'Service Number')...

On 11 March Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta made a quick visit to Rwanda where he attended the leadership indaba before briefly visiting President Museveni at State House Entebbe...

For a leader who has tamed the political ambitions of the main opposition party and brought it to support his government's national unity and development agenda President Uhuru Kenyatta increasingly strikes the pose of an angry impatient and intemperate man in public and in private...

Yet another sign: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta the only head of state to attend was present along with his own newly-reconciled enemy Raila Odinga...

President Uhuru Kenyatta's mantra is that the time for party politics is over and that all leaders should concentrate on economic development based on his signature 'Big Four Agenda' (food security affordable housing manufacturing and affordable healthcare) and reconciliation based on the 'Building Bridges Initiative' agreed between him and Odinga last March...

Campaigners politicians and plotters have started the year with a flurry of activity: protests about electoral shenanigans in Congo-Kinshasa; demonstrations demanding the exit of Sudan's President Omer Hassan el Beshir; the governing Jubilee party in Kenya has started to splinter after top officials quit in protest at Vice-President William Ruto's plans to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta; and security forces killed two soldiers and arrested seven more after a failed putsch in Gabon...

Commentators and pundits have been giving their verdicts on the first year of President Uhuru Kenyatta's second term of office since the anniversary fell on 28 November...

On Tuesday 18 September President Uhuru Kenyatta's governing Jubilee party and the opposition (at least in name) National Super Alliance (Nasa) led by Raila Odinga held separate emergency parliamentary group meetings with one common aim: to marshal their MPs to support a revised budget for the current financial year (July 2018 to June 2019)...

When Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta asked for advice about how to handle United States President Donald Trump during his state visit to Washington DC on 27 August a lobbyist told him: 'Talk business and security...

President Uhuru Kenyatta has prevaricated...