While questions remain on where economic policy will be driven the Ruto government's anxieties about the soaring national debt inherited from Uhuru Kenyatta's presidency are very real and the President has signalled that he is more than willing to take unpopular measures to shore up revenue collection (AC Vol 63 No 21 The hustler backs austerity)...

Within the region the African Union has simply made a bland call for 'all stakeholders to engage in a constructive dialogue' though Angolan President João Lourenço and Kenya's former President Uhuru Kenyatta are acting as emissaries...

1% of GDP after a debt-fuelled infrastructure expansion drive during Uhuru Kenyatta's presidency well above the IMF-recommended threshold of 50% for developing countries and up from 36% in 2012...

He added that if former President Uhuru Kenyatta had stood for a third term he would have won easily...

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has a clearly defined portfolio quite different from Ruto's position in President Uhuru Kenyatta's second term when he had no specified role and was effectively sidelined from government...

Neither Odinga nor former President Uhuru Kenyatta cultivated successors; that presents an opportunity for younger local leaders ahead of 2027...

It is likely to rise again after a flurry of unbudgeted spending in the final days of Uhuru Kenyatta's presidency...

The ICC had charged Ruto President Uhuru Kenyatta and four others in 2011 with crimes against humanity bankrolling and organising the deadly violence after the 2007 elections...

Another minor positive is that all parties seem willing to extend the peace process beyond Obasanjo adding Kenya's outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta while formalising supporting roles for Hammer his European Union counterpart Annette Weber and the UN Secretary-General's Horn of Africa special representative Hanna Tetteh a former foreign minister of Ghana widely seen as one of the more effective of the UN envoys...