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Uhuru Kenyatta decrees a political truce during the Covid-19 crisis

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“After Kenyatta: the never-ending battle to take State House”

KENYA

After Kenyatta: the never-ending battle to take State House

The handshake between former opposition leader Raila Odinga and newly re-elected president Uhuru Kenyatta got the campaign to succeed Kenyatta off to a premature start. Odinga has been battling since then against William Ruto, who has himself been abandoned by the head of state. The seemingly never-ending campaign for the presidential elections, which are due to take place on 9 August 2022, has crystalised around the Building Bridges Initiative, a constitutional referendum. [...]

Kenyan head of state Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered vice president William Ruto to end his campaign against planned changes to the Jubilee Party's management committee. [...] (478 words)

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