Immaculate Akello

The dead sus­pect had em­barked on a hunger strike af­ter be­ing de­tained in con­nec­tion with a mass star­va­tion in Kenya.

A re­port on in­fil­tra­tion of gov’t net­works by Kenya’s largest cred­i­tor has Kenyans ask­ing how se­cure their sys­tems are.

Paul Macken­zie, the cult’s leader, has been ar­rest­ed twice pre­vi­ous­ly af­ter the deaths of chil­dren due to star­va­tion.

Two weeks of protests against the high cost of liv­ing and al­leged elec­toral rig­ging have been paused for di­a­logue.

In Ruto’s first pres­i­den­tial bid, his­to­ry and hus­tle helped him out­wit the sit­ting pres­i­dent and a po­lit­i­cal vet­er­an.

Le­gal bat­tles and po­lit­i­cal in­trigue are ex­pect­ed in the com­ing days, now that William Ruto has won the Kenyan elec­tion.

There was dra­ma and dis­agree­ment in parts of the cap­i­tal af­ter Deputy Pres­i­dent Ruto was de­clared pres­i­dent-elect.

The rise in fe­male gov­er­nors from Tues­day’s vote is a small but sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ment over 2017.

The spy-turned-law pro­fes­sor is seen as jok­er, lit­er­al­ly and fig­u­ra­tive­ly, but has cul­ti­vat­ed a small band of fol­low­ers.

Raila Odin­ga and William Ruto adopt­ed dif­fer­ent styles to sway the un­de­cid­ed and ral­ly their base ahead of Tues­day vote.