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First and foremost, all kinds of loyalty & Disloyalty Theories and political hypothesis would have been stated by those celebrating him today in Kenya and around the world if William Ruto had lost the 2022 Presidential election of Kenya. William Ruto has demonstrated that, the loyalty of a politician should…

Odinga lost the campaign as much as Ruto won it – and will rue the day he won Kenyatta’s backing.

William Samoei Ruto becomes Kenya’s first sitting deputy president to succeed the incumbent following competitive elections and first candidate to win the

Oginga Odinga, in full Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga, (born October 1911, Sakwa, Central Nyanza, East Africa Protectorate [now in Kenya]—died Jan. 20, 1994, Kisumu, Kenya), African nationalist politician who was a leader in the opposition against the single-party rule of Jomo Kenyatta and his successor, Daniel arap Moi. Odinga was a member of Kenya’s second largest ethnic group, the Luo. Like many other prominent East Africans, he was educated at Makerere University College in Kampala, Ugan...

Kenyan politics has been dominated by three families since independence – the Kenyattas, the Mois and the Odingas. William Ruto’s win ushers in a new era of political imagination, signifying the growing irrelevance of tribal and ethnic politics.

William Ruto was declared the winner of Kenya's presidential election, despite a sustained pushback from former ally Uhuru Kenyatta, who chose to back Raila Odinga, writes Western K. Shilaho.

Confirmation of the election’s results was delayed for several hours after four of the electoral commission’s seven members disputed the results.

Five days after Kenya’s presidential election, no official result was yet in sight though preliminary calculations pointed to a major upset Ruto victory.

Jubilee’s fall calls into question the fate of outgoing President Kenyatta.

The Kenyan voters will elect the fifth president of the East African country since its independence in 1963.