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William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto CGH (born 21 January 1967) is a Kenyan politician who is the fifth and current president of Kenya since 13 September 2022. Prior to becoming president, he served as the first elected deputy president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022.
The campaign season officially kicked off on 29 May 2022 as clearance of electoral candidates continued. [83] Although the presidential election was considered a two-horse race between Odinga and Ruto, Wajackoyah gained significant popularity within the electorate due to his radical measures to quell the ballooning public debt.
Ruto along with various African leaders attended the Feed Africa Dakar 2 Summit. Ruto was a keynote speaker on Food, Sovereignty and Resilience. The summit hosted by the African Development Bank pledged to increase its investment in continental food production. [29] At the end of the summit, Ruto officially opened the Kenyan embassy in Senegal ...
The #RejectFinanceBill2024 movement commenced on TikTok before spreading to X, with the dissemination of the anti-tax campaign further facilitated by platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp. [ 68 ] Initially, the movement began as a call to action for citizens to urge their members of parliament to vote against the bill by publicly sharing the ...
[9] [10] UDA nominated Ruto in the 2022 Kenyan general election, after he announced that he would leave the Jubilee Party in late 2021. Ruto picked Rigathi Gachagua as his running mate for the elections. [11] In the 2022 general elections, UDA was able to garner 22 out of 47 seats in the Senate and 138 of the elected members of the National ...
Live updates: Kamala Harris to campaign today with Liz Cheney in Ripon, Wisconsin, the Republican Party birthplace. Gannett. Ridah Syed and Jesse Lin, USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin.
Walz’s remarks in Tucson, Ariz., come just hours after his GOP opponent, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), held a campaign event in the same city. The event is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. EDT. Watch ...
The President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy William Samoei Ruto were re-elected on 30 October 2017. [19] This will run up to 2022 when the next elections will be conducted. The historical handshake in March 2018 between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his long-time opponent Raila Odinga meant reconciliation followed by economic growth and increased ...