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Kenya Elections

Kalonzo Musyoka (twitter: @TheWiperParty)

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Kenya: Will Musyoka return to Raila or take up Ruto’s offer?

Just a week after Kalonzo Musyoka announced his exit from Raila Odinga's Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition, Deputy President William Ruto has ... seized the moment to offer him a place within his Kenya Kwanza Alliance, even as allies urge the Wiper party leader to return to his original camp.

Employees of Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission register new voters before a concert promoting registration to vote, in Eldoret

red card

Kenya: IEBC under pressure over 25 politicians with integrity issues

Kenya’s National Integrity Alliance (NIA), a civil society pressure group, is urging the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) ... to refrain from clearing 25 political aspirants with questionable integrity issues to run for elective positions in the 9 August polls.

Rigathi Gachagua (twitter/@rigathi)

"pockets and networks"

Kenya 2022: Who is Rigathi Gachagua, Ruto’s running mate?

Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has picked an ardent critic of President Uhuru Kenyatta to deputise him for the next five years should ... he win the August presidential election.

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Complex threat

Kenya 2022: Will new guidelines keep terrorists at bay ahead of elections?

As Kenya prepares for an election expected to be one of the most competitive in the country’s history, tensions are growing between two government ... agencies on how to effectively fight terrorism on Kenyan soil. Will the row threaten gains made thus far?

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

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

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto attends a presidential campaign rally in Nairobi

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Kenya 2022: Ruto goes to war with the media and attacks ‘deep state’

Kenya's Opposition leader Raila Odinga names his running mate, in Nairobi

Sweet talk

Kenya 2022: Raila promises the moon with Azimio manifesto

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

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

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto attends a presidential campaign rally in Nairobi

ground work

Kenya 2022: Ruto goes to war with the media and attacks ‘deep state’

Kenya's Opposition leader Raila Odinga names his running mate, in Nairobi

Sweet talk

Kenya 2022: Raila promises the moon with Azimio manifesto

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Kalonzo Musyoka (rt) and his running mate Andrew Sunkuli (lt)(twitter/@skmusyoka)

sore loser?

Kenya: Musyoka quits party to vie for presidency after Karua named Raila’s running mate

After losing the nomination to Martha Karua, former vice-president and the Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has announced that he has quit ... Raila Odinga’s Azimio la Umoja coalition to vie for the presidency in the August polls.

Kenya's Opposition leader Raila Odinga names his running mate, in Nairobi

Game Changer

Kenya: Martha Karua, a step away from becoming first female deputy president?

Veteran politician and former Justice Minister Martha Karua could be the first female deputy president in Kenya’s history… That’s if her ... coalition, Azimio la Umoja One Kenya, wins the August polls.

Raila Odinga and William Ruto (Reuters and TAR)

interrogating pledges

Kenya: Top 7 election issues facing Raila and Ruto

As Kenya’s election date draws closer, the two leading presidential candidates, William Ruto and Raila Odinga, are promising Kenyans the world. ... Even so, from a weakened economy to affordable healthcare, can either one of the top candidates realistically follow through on their electoral pledges? We look at the top seven issues facing the two men.

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Jumping ship

Kenya 2022: Presidential candidate Raila Odinga’s coalition shaken by defections

Distrust and disunity are plaguing former prime minister Raila Odinga's coalition just three months before Kenya's presidential election after ... two parties jumped ship to join his main rival, deputy president William Ruto.

war of words

Kenya 2022: Don’t blame me for your government’s failures, Ruto tells Kenyatta

Ahead of the August 2022 general election, deputy president William Ruto, who is now vying for the country's top seat, has bluntly told his boss ... President Uhuru Kenyatta to stop blaming him for any government failures.

Team of rivals

Kenya election 2022: How the Odinga and Kenyatta dynasties set aside their differences

The nuptials between the Kenyatta and Odinga clans ahead of this year's presidential election in Kenya took many aback. Political monogamy is ... not a common trait among Kenyan presidential contenders, but the alliance between outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta and his longtime rival Raila Odinga seems to be holding. History plays a role. And the dynasties of Kenyatta and Odinga have that in abundance, dating back to the liberation struggle against British colonial rule more than seven decades ago.

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