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Orange Democratic Movement General Secretary Edwin Sifuna has stepped up his attacks on the deal between his party leader Raila Odinga and President William Ruto...
‘Matiang'i has his faults but if he is going to help us remove William Ruto so be it ' he stated...
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President William Ruto's falling out with his core Mount Kenya constituency – followed by the impeachment of his former deputy Rigathi Gachagua – has become the defining crisis of his presidency (AC Vol 65 No 20 The deputy takes the fall Vol 65 No 21 Mountain doesn't go to Gachagua & Vol 65 No 22 Ruto's impeachment of his Deputy starts to backfire)...
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With personal ratings stuck between 10 and 15% few dispute that President William Ruto is toxically unpopular – especially among young Kenyans...
Ethekon's appointment has raised questions about his independence given his previous role as Turkana County Attorney under Josphat Nanok now Deputy Chief of Staff to President William Ruto...
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Though the court did rule that President William Ruto had unlawfully approved their appointments by doing so before the petition ruling hours later on 10 July Ruto re-issued the confirmation notice...
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Vol 66 No 14 |
- KENYA
- BRITAIN
Tullow then announced in 2024 that commercial production would begin by 2028 – only to sell its Kenyan assets to Gulf Energy in April 2025 a company managed by Francis Njogu a close ally of President William Ruto...
The resignation of Moses Kuria on 8 July is another sign of the growing discord between President William Ruto and the central Kenya constituency that secured him a narrow disputed victory in the 2022 elections...
Vol 66 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
A year after ‘Gen Z' activists stormed parliament in Nairobi shaking the foundations of President William Ruto's legitimacy a new round of protests on 25 June were greeted with lethal force tear gas and water cannons...
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Vol 66 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
Last year's mass protests in Kenya forced President William Ruto to drop tax hikes and shake up his ministerial team as ratings agencies downgraded Kenya's debt (AC Vol 65 No 14 Youth revolt wins after Ruto scraps finance bill and pledges talks)...
Critics include the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) an autonomous African Union body as well as Kenya's President William Ruto and Akinwumi Adesina who stepped down as AfDB president last month...
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On 11 June President William Ruto confirmed that the 31-year-old had been killed ‘at the hands of the police' describing the killing as ‘heartbreaking and unacceptable'...
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