William Samoei arap Ruto

Yebei was described once as a prosecution and then as a defence witness in the trial of Vice-President William Ruto and the radio DJ Joshua arap Sang for crimes against humanity in the post-election violence of 2007-08 at the International Criminal Court in the Hague (AC Vol 56 No 1, Economy up, security down)...

The grisly image of the decomposing and mutilated body of Meshack Yebei, a witness in Deputy President William Ruto's case at the International Criminal Court will keep this issue at the top of the political agenda in 2015...

Squabbling between cabinet secretaries and the heads of ministries has produced a logjam over budgets with Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto constantly intervening to make the system function...

For Deputy President William Ruto, this was a plum appointment...

The bill was introduced in Parliament by Majority Leader Aden Duale, a loud cheerleader for the governing Kenyatta-William Ruto coalition, known as UhuRuto...

President Kenyatta and Vice-President William Ruto are stepping up pressure on the opposition after they blamed 'local political networks' for the mid-June attacks in Mpeketoni near Lamu...

Although the Somali Islamist militia Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attacks, Deputy Prime Minister William Ruto insisted they were the work of unnamed opposition politicians...

On leaving a cabinet retreat a fortnight ago, Kenyatta announced that he and his deputy, William Ruto, would take a 20% pay cut, along with their cabinet...

Rumours and accusationsIn the months that followed, Kenyatta and William Ruto set about demonising the British government and its High Commissioner, Christian Turner...

When, late last year Kenyatta and Vice-President William Ruto visited Eldoret, the hotbed of Kalenjin politics, Keter repeated his allegations of high-level official corruption and added that the new government was not giving Kalenjin people an equal share of public appointments – or government tenders...