Browsing: William Ruto

Ever eager to project his importance on the international stage, Kenya’s president William Ruto took to X on Monday to say that he’d had a call…

Since June 2024, a wave of abductions targeting government critics has swept over Kenya. 86 people, including activists and satirists, have been kidnapped – with foreign…

A Statista report has revealed that Kenyan President William Ruto has the highest salary among world leaders compared to his country’s economic capacity. According to the…

What should democracy mean in the African context? We’ve juxtaposed two visions – the first, that of Kenya’s William Ruto, delivering a scripted condemnation of last…

The grim reaper is sweeping Kenyan social media – where a ‘funeral cortège’ of AI-generated images of a dead President William Ruto has gone viral. Some…

The Kenya Human Rights Commission, along with several other rights groups, has raised concerns regarding the rise in abductions in Kenya. In a recent case, five…

Kenyans will remember 2024 for President William Ruto’s extravagant state visit to the US in May, during which Joe Biden announced that Congress was working on…

Bread is at the heart of politics across the world. It represents labour, life and livelihoods. Ruling classes down the ages have always offered ‘bread and…

In our end-of-year review, William Sakawa takes us through the Kenyan protests against William Ruto’s government. The June-July protests in Kenya traced back to reforms the…

Is it a coincidence that the West favours some of Africa’s autocratic leaders? For example, take the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-97),…