Spotlight | Kenya
Trade minister Moses Kuria increasingly challenged in government

Kenya
Former Ruto ally's macadamia nut business put up for auction

Once a thriving business, Jungle Nuts, owned by businessman and political figure Patrick Wainaina, is about to be auctioned off. Potential buyers have been invited to submit their bids by 20 September.

Kenya
Ruto-Odinga entente takes ruling party to breaking point

William Ruto's appointment of five opposition politicians to government jobs has further clipped the wings of his deputy Rigathi Gachagua, who must also contend with a reconfigured opposition in his own central Kenyan fiefdom.

Kenya
Gachagua stumbles again in his would-be fiefdom

Kenya's deputy president has long striven to emerge as the most powerful politician in the Mount Kenya region. But numerous obstacles stand in his way, including the former resident of State House.

Kenya
Big tobacco steers Nairobi's cigarette tax revamp

After months of tobacco industry lobbying, the Kenyan government is working on a new formula for taxing cigarettes, which could benefit certain manufacturers. Health campaigners are worried.

Kenya
Ruto keen to revive fortunes of state's debt-laden textile firm

The Kenyan president has made a priority of ensuring Rivatex, a company based in his political heartland, emerges from its deep financial woes.

Kenya
Uchumi Supermarkets abandoned first by Kenyatta and now Ruto

Neither Uhuru Kenyatta's administration nor that of his successor William Ruto have shown any desire to rescue the heavily indebted state-owned retail chain. Against this backdrop, the IMF is putting pressure on the government to limit perilous bailouts.

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Kenya
Ruto associate caught up in sugar contract probe

Kenya's anti-corruption agency is investigating how a company already implicated in a previous sugar scandal was able to land a lucrative new contract.

Kenya
Rivalries drive cracks through Ruto's coalition

Tension between Kenya's deputy president and two of William Ruto's key allies risks upsetting the fragile regional equilibrium within the head of state's ruling political grouping.

Spotlight | Kenya
Belarusian businessmen with colourful history elsewhere in Africa break into Ruto's machine

Business partners Oleg Vodchits and Alexander Zingman, who were previously active in Zimbabwe and DR Congo, are becoming quasi official middlemen in Kenya's new administration. They have also been questioned in the DRC over their ties to that country's former president, Joseph Kabila.