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Capital control

Kenya 2022: Sakaja versus Igathe in the battle for Nairobi

Who will win the crucial Nairobi governorship election in August? Raila Odinga’s Azimio la Umoja coalition has settled on business leader Polycarp ... Igathe as its candidate, while William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza Alliance has chosen Senator Johnson Sakaja.

Raila Odinga Cleared By IEBC in Nairobi, Kenya - 05 Jun 2022

Air Castle?

Kenya 2022: Raila’s manifesto tackled by Ruto over second-hand clothes

After Kenya's polls body announced the official four candidates vying for presidency in the August polls, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga ... unveiled his 10-point plan for Kenya, a plan that his rival, Deputy President William Ruto, has criticised.

National songbirds

How Kenya’s ‘patriotic’ choral music has changed history

Choral music – patriotic choral music in particular – is a significant genre in Kenya’s political history. ...

Kenya's presidential candidates Raila Odinga and William Ruto as they attend peace prayers at the Uhuru Park grounds in Nairobi, February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

lacking confidence

Kenya 2022: Raila & Ruto agree IEBC not ready to hold free and fair polls

Kenya’s presidential frontrunners, William Ruto and Raila Odinga, are both raising questions on whether the Independent Electoral and Boundaries ... Commission (IEBC) is well prepared to administer a free, fair and credible poll on 9 August. Each candidate has his own list of grievances.

Kenya top stories

hustling, quantified

Kenya: Do Ruto’s manifesto pledges add up?

Once rivals, now allies, President Uhuru Kenyatta (1st left) and presidential hopeful Raila Odinga (2nd left) on the podium together

elections 2022

Kenya: Raila Odinga – ‘I haven’t mellowed, I’m still the same person’

Kenyan entrepreneur turns farm waste into low cost organic fertilizer in Mwea

Race Against Hunger

Nigerian food commodities exchange AFEX seeks funding for east Africa expansion

hustling, quantified

Kenya: Do Ruto’s manifesto pledges add up?

Once rivals, now allies, President Uhuru Kenyatta (1st left) and presidential hopeful Raila Odinga (2nd left) on the podium together

elections 2022

Kenya: Raila Odinga – ‘I haven’t mellowed, I’m still the same person’

Kenyan entrepreneur turns farm waste into low cost organic fertilizer in Mwea

Race Against Hunger

Nigerian food commodities exchange AFEX seeks funding for east Africa expansion

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Kenya Central Bank Governor Patrick Njoroge addresses a news conference at the Central Bank of Kenya headquarters in Nairobi

forex folly

Kenya: Decline of FX reserves rattles importers

The gradual decline of foreign exchange (FX) reserves in Kenya is fuelling the black market and causing additional financial pain for manufacturers ... and importers.

Election officials wait for voters at a polling station during the repeat presidential election in the city centre in Nairobi,

outlawed gang

Kenya 2022: Voters fear election violence from resurgent Mungiki sect

With elections in Kenya just two months away, voters are worried about the resurgence of the violent Mungiki gang that unleashed ethnic violence ... across the country after the 2007 poll.

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Wafula Chebukati, Chairman of Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission attends a press conference in Nairobi

No confidence

Kenya : Electoral body IEBC on the spot over irregular mass voter transfer

Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is in the hot seat over irregular voter transfers ahead of August’s anticipated ... presidential polls.

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high-profile woman

Can Kenya’s ‘Iron Lady’ Martha Karua push Raila over the top?

Presidential candidate Raila Odinga made Kenyan history this month when he chose as his running mate the first woman to ever join a major party ... ticket. But will she be able to push the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance leader to the top?

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Kipruto Arap Kirwa has left William Ruto's UDA party and joined Raila Odinga's Azimio la Umoja alliance. (photo: twitter)

second defection

Kenya: Kipruto Kirwa joins Raila’s Azimio, says Ruto’s UDA party is not democratic

One of Kenya’s top presidential candidates, William Ruto, has suffered a blow after Kipruto Kirwa, the deputy chairman of his United Democratic ... Alliance (UDA) Party, joined Raila Odinga’s Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Coalition.

Kenya's top presidential candidates, William Ruto and Raila Odinga pose for a photo at the Uhuru Park grounds in Nairobi, February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

political juggernauts

Kenya: Battle for Mt. Kenya votes led to Ruto and Raila’s choice of running mates

After keeping Kenyans guessing for days, the two leading presidential contenders William Ruto and Raila Odinga named top politicians from Mt. ... Kenya as their running mates, proving how crucial the region is in determining the country’s next president. Who between the two will win over the region’s five-million-plus voters?

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