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Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday pledged to contain large domestic and foreign borrowing by the government within three years to help spur economic growth. Ruto who officially opened the 13th Parliament said the very large government borrowing requirement has undermined the business sector’s contribution to …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday named his nominees to the Cabinet to help steer the country after the Aug. 9 general elections. Ruto, who retained one serving cabinet secretary, appointed former deputy prime minister Musalia Mudavadi as the prime cabinet secretary, a newly created position. …

Kenya case show how a country gets there and what that means Kenya’s newly elected president, William Ruto, has earned more legal space to borrow for his grandiose economic plan after parliament recently raised the country’s public debt ceiling to KSh10 trillion (US$100 billion). The new administration says the country …

Why being vilified as being the most corrupt politician in Kenya did not undermine but facilitated his victory THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | This week, the Supreme Court confirmed the election of William Ruto as the fifth president of Kenya. The election poses a dilemma for many …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Raila Odinga, the runner-up in the 2022 general elections in Kenya has explained that his move to petition the Supreme Court of Kenya is aimed at not only making him president but saving Kenya from criminal cartels. Odinga as 1st Petitioner and Martha Karua, 2nd …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has this morning congratulated William Samoei Ruto upon his election as the 5th president of Kenya. Ruto was declared the winner of the hotly contested election by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission-IEBC of Kenya last evening. According to results released …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government of Uganda has denied that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is interfering in the internal politics of Kenya. Speaking to journalists at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala today, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem said Uganda’s foreign policy is …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Two foreign nationals working on the opposition’s poll campaign are being deported from Kenya, the opposition and the US embassy said Saturday, just three days before a general election. In a tweet the US embassy in Nairobi said an American and a Canadian had been detained …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Elite Kenyan security forces on Sunday killed a man at the home of Deputy President William Ruto, ending a 20-hour siege that left one officer dead and another wounded, security officials said. Ruto and his family were not at the vast property in the northwest of …

By The Independent Team In the Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reversed a ruling that allowed Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to attend only parts of his trial in The Hague. Kenyatta’s trial begins in February and his lawyers argued that attending the trial would prevent him from governing …