Tanzanian and Kenyan leaders have agreed to step up the fight against cross-border crime, including human trafficking and poaching. Addressing a news conference at State House in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and her…
William Ruto sworn in as Kenya’s president in wake of divisive poll
Tens of thousands of spectators packed the Kasarani stadium in Nairobi on Tuesday to watch William Ruto being sworn in as Kenya’s fifth president following his narrow victory over Raila Odinga in a bitterly fought but largely peaceful election. Several…
Osinbajo in Nairobi for Ruto’s inauguration
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has arrived in Nairobi, to represent Nigeria at the Kenyan presidential inauguration. The event, which comes up on Tuesday at Kasarani Stadium, Nairobi, will be Kenya’s fifth presidential inauguration. Osinbajo was received at the Jomo Kenyatta International…
Kenya election 2022: Supreme Court confirms William Ruto’s victory against Raila Odinga
Kenya’s Supreme Court has ruled that William Ruto was properly elected president, dismissing several petitions seeking to annul the result of the 9 August election. His rival, Raila Odinga, and others had alleged there had been massive fraud. But in…
Kenya election 2022: Supreme Court confirms William Ruto’s victory against Raila Odinga
Kenya’s Supreme Court has ruled that William Ruto was properly elected president, dismissing several petitions seeking to annul the result of the 9 August election. His rival, Raila Odinga, and others had alleged that massive fraud, including tampering with results…
Kenya’s Odinga files court petition against presidential election result
Kenya’s defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga has filed an online petition to the country’s top court, his lawyer told AFP Monday, challenging the result of the August 9 election that handed victory to his rival William Ruto. Odinga, a veteran…
Kenya’s president-elect will ‘engage’ in any court challenge
Kenyan president-elect William Ruto says that if there’s a court challenge to the election results, “we will engage in those” as East Africa’s most stable democracy awaits a likely petition from losing candidate Raila Odinga. Ruto spoke to journalists on…
Results declared by Kenya electoral body null and void, says Odinga
Presidential candidate and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has described the Kenya presidential election as null and void. Oding, who spoke at a press conference after the announcement of the election results, described the election results as a disregard for…
Ruto declared presidential race winner after chaos over vote count
Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto was able to hold on to a lead over longtime opposition leader Raila Odinga. Election officials had said they could not “take ownership” of the results, citing an “opaque” process. Kenya’s electoral commission chair announced…