Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Odinga seeks French-speaking Africa's help in bid for AU Commission chair

Kenya
Ruto mollifies sacked minister with new job

Kenya's president has appointed dismissed government heavyweight Moses Kuria to his council of economists, preserving the loyalty of a long-standing ally who had been edging towards the opposition.

Uganda
Bobi Wine's party seeks North American support

The opposition leader and his allies in the National Unity Platform have just returned from a tour of the United States and Canada, during which they mobilised political and intellectual circles and the Ugandan diaspora, against a backdrop of growing mistrust between Kampala and Western chancelleries.

China, Kenya
Ruto's project wishlist for China visit

The Kenyan president is in Beijing where he hopes to secure new financing for key infrastructure plans in his country.

Kenya
Ruto asks allies to take pressure off contested deputy president

As the new government settles in, the Kenyan president has asked his entourage to show greater leniency towards Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Orders from Ruto not to pressure his number two have extended to the presidential office itself.