In the end  it was the Commission's failure to secure a back-up that cost it  and Uhuru Kenyatta  the August 2017 elections during the Supreme Court of Kenya case...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    While the leaders of Egypt  Ethiopia  Djibouti and Mozambique brought their official staff to China's recent Belt and Road Forum last week  Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta also brought the nominal leader of the opposition  Raila Odinga and his staff...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    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')...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 60 No 6 | 
            - RWANDA
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	     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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 60 No 3 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     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...
	 
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	    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...
	 
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	    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)...