Kenya

William Samoei arap Ruto

Date of Birth:21 December 1966
Place of Birth:Sambut Village, Kamagut, Uasin Gishu, Kenya


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Election referee gets his marching orders

Marjan joined the IEBC in 2015 and was CEO during the disputed 2022 general elections won by a wafer-thin margin byWilliam Ruto...

' Musyoka who has announced his intention to contest the presidency in 2027 added that the IEBC is widely perceived as aWilliam Ruto commission...

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Opposition solidarity goes regional

That PresidentWilliam Ruto and President Samia Suluhu Hassan were among the first to congratulate Museveni on his re-election was unsurprising...


Golden tickets for sale in Ruto’s party

PresidentWilliam Ruto is bullish...


Why the fight between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi is lighting regional fires

Kenya was also prominent on the Somaliland recognition list given the close ties between PresidentWilliam Ruto and the UAE's Mohammed bin Zayed...


NEWSMAKER: Oburu Odinga, awkward caretaker

ODM was already split over whether to prop up PresidentWilliam Ruto's government until the in August 2027 elections and further still on whether to back Ruto for a second term...


Ruto – the unloved but unbeatable candidate

An early test will be internal elections inWilliam Ruto's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) – initially supposed to take place in mid-2024 but which will now happen on 10 January...


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After shutting down USAID, Washington launches $15 billion health pacts in Africa

The data sharing aspect of the Kenya deal has been used by petitioners to obtain a Nairobi court injunction preventingWilliam Ruto's government from ratifying it pending a Supreme Court ruling...

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Ruto moves adeptly to shore up ties with Washington

The deal announced on 4 December to coincide with PresidentWilliam Ruto's presence in Washington DC as a guarantor of the peace agreement between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda is part of the Trump administration's ‘America First Global Health Strategy' launched in September...

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Profile: Ndayishimiye – dragged to the frontline

Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye's stock had risen after he and Kenya's PresidentWilliam Ruto were invited to the signing of the peace deal in Washington...


Ruto holds the parties together

PresidentWilliam Ruto and his semi-official allies in the late Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) enjoyed a bumper by-election day on 27 November winning 16 of the 24 seats contested and retaining all those they previously held...

Beyond the usual speeches by party grandees the main event was an invitation-only dinner attended by PresidentWilliam Ruto whose presidency is opposed by roughly half of ODM...


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