Uhuru Kenyatta

Hundreds of protesters have overrun a farm owned by the family of former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, during another day of fierce opposition protests.
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Kenya’s newly elected president says he has had a phone conversation with outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta about the transition. William Ruto said they spoke about the just-concluded election and the democratic transition:
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In a move akin to a Trump backing a Clinton in a US election, Kenya's outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta wants to hand the political crown to his foe-turned-friend Raila Odinga - only to see his deputy William Ruto trying to snatch it in the…
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Raila Amolo Odinga, a veteran Kenyan political leader and one-time prime minister, has long cast himself as an anti-establishment firebrand, despite belonging to one of the country's top political dynasties.
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"We have chosen Raila Odinga without any opposition to be the fifth president of Kenya," Kenyatta told a cheering crowd numbering thousands in the capital Nairobi.
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The announcement came after Kenyatta's anointed successor William Ruto, who wants to contest the presidential election, was sacked from the ruling Jubilee party.
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The meeting was announced shortly after the release of the Pandora Papers, a journalistic investigation that exposed secret offshore accounts linked to politicians and businesspeople all over the world.
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The secret assets were uncovered by an investigation, published earlier on Sunday, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Finance Uncovered, Africa Uncensored and other news organisations.
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A mainstay of Kenyan politics, the former prime minister remains hugely popular despite losing four shots at the presidency in 1997, 2007, 2013 and 2017.
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Kenya's veteran opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga said on Sunday he had been discharged from hospital where he was being treated for Covid-19.
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