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18 Mar 2022
Ruto ups the ante again
Deputy President William Ruto and his allies spent the past week in the Kiambu East region, starting from Thika earlier in the week and traversing through both Gatundu constituencies later. Dr R...
11 Mar 2022
OKA fights undermine Kalonzo’s resolve
Nick Salat, Kanu’s secretary-general, is not a diplomat. This was evident this week as he chided Wiper Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka for his apparent indecision over whether to join Raila Odinga’s ...
11 Mar 2022
Peace efforts ramped up months to the election
With less than six months to the General Election, peace stakeholders have sprung into action in efforts to prevent election-related violence. Last Tuesday, the National Cohesion and Integrated Commis...
4 Mar 2022
Headwinds in Raila’s attempt to build a winning combination with Kalonzo as duo struggle to repair relations
All along, it had seemed to Raila Odinga and his supporters that Kalonzo Musyoka would easily agree to cross over and accept to be his running mate, but things have changed drastically. This week, Mr ...
25 Feb 2022
DP Ruto heads out West
Deputy President William Ruto has rattled his competitors with the news that he will this weekend embark on a 10-day tour of the United States of America and the United Kingdom. According to his...
25 Feb 2022
Sagana III sparks the endless back and forth
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s third big meeting at Sagana State Lodge went as widely expected. He castigated his deputy for starting his campaigns earlier than necessary, denying knowledge of the...
18 Feb 2022
As deadlines loom, so do familiar problems
Raila Odinga returned from a 10-day tour to an opinion poll saying that Peter Kenneth would be his best bet for running mate. On the other hand, according to a poll by The Star, Mathira MP Rigathi G...
11 Feb 2022
As he demands a solid deal, Kalonzo could hold the cards
Former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka was earlier this week given the greenlight by his Wiper party to negotiate pre-election deals. Not that he needed permission, as he has nevertheless been approa...
4 Feb 2022
Joint opposition to manual submission of presidential results could neutralize tensions
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has sparked a fresh round of controversy in political circles just after the fight over the law determining how coalitions are formed ended.&...
28 Jan 2022
Mudavadi’s political move and enactment of parties law roll the ball for coalitions
In the months before he announced an alliance with Deputy President William Ruto, Musalia Mudavadi had been working to change his profile. He had become more assertive and angled his messaging t...
21 Jan 2022
Jimi Wanjigi’s foray into front-end politics enters snail’s pace
Jimi Wanjigi has since mid-2021 been vocal about his bid to become a presidential candidate, but the last week has made that ambitious idea fade into the background. The decision by a court to free hi...
21 Jan 2022
Extrajudicial killings put a spotlight on the government
While The Standard had published a story about it before, the visit by activists Boniface Mwangi and Hussein Khalid to the banks of River Yala have once again thrown the spotlight on suspected extraju...
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