When Kenya's Supreme Court voided the election of President Uhuru Kenyatta by four to two it became the first-ever African court to unseat a sitting president and only the third anywhere in the world to do so (AC Vol 58 No 18 The next trial of strength)...
His chosen successor the youthful Uhuru Kenyatta son of the first president was decisively defeated by the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC) an alliance of the 'Rainbow Coalition' of KANU defectors around Raila Odinga Kalonzo Musyoka and George Saitoti and the 'National Alliance' of Mwai Kibaki Charity Ngilu and Kijana Wamalwa which – through Kibaki's Democratic Party - had been the enduring centre of political opposition to KANU since 1991...
Praised across Africa as a triumph of judicial independence the Supreme Court annulling of President Uhuru Kenyatta's victory in last month's presidential election is a double-edged sword...
Uhuru Kenyatta'...
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At first Odinga rallied the leaders of all five main parties in the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) behind a total rejection of results from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) which gave President Uhuru Kenyatta an early lead of over 10 points...
That the Commission declared President Uhuru Kenyatta the winner at a point when 11 000 of these forms (out of 41 000 in total) were missing raises questions about its transparency...
After preliminary results had given President Uhuru Kenyatta 54...
Musalia Mudavadi a joint leader of the opposition called it 'a dagger into the heart of Kenyan democracy' and President Uhuru Kenyatta urged people not to speculate about the killers and their motives...
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Earlier this year most pollsters and independent analysts reckoned that President Uhuru Kenyatta would win easily against challenger Raila Odinga...
President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee campaign is worried that commissioning grand projects such as the Nairobi-Mombasa railway hasn't fired up its supporters who are more concerned about jobs and the cost of maize...
Claiming that Al Ghurair had won the contract only because it was close to Uhuru Kenyatta's brother Muhoho Kenyatta Nasa took the IEBC to court...
In 2013 the disappointment of supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga at losing the presidential contest to Uhuru Kenyatta was offset by impressive victories for his Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) at other levels...
Joseph Nkaissery looked hale and hearty at the Labour Day rally at the tourist village Bomas of Kenya which he attended with President Uhuru Kenyatta just hours before his sudden death on 7 July (AC Vol 58 No 15 Killing fields in the Rift Valley)...
