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Jubilee. President after election. Election results annulled. Uhuru Kenyatta remains president. General elections were held in Kenya on 8 August 2017 to elect the President, members of the National Assembly and Senate. [2] They coincided with the 2017 Kenyan local elections which elected Governors and representatives in the devolved governments.
Presidential elections were held in Kenya on 26 October 2017 following the Supreme Court 's annulment of the results of the presidential vote in the August 2017 general elections. [1] [2] The election was won by incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta of the Jubilee Party, who won 98.3% of the popular vote to defeat Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).
The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. An English-language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by former editor of the British News Chronicle ...
William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto CGH (born 21 December 1966) 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. Previously, holders of the position were referred to as Vice President and the officeholder was unelected and appointed by the ...
As early as January 2016, Mike Sonko had announced his intentions to run for Governor of Nairobi County in the 2017 Kenyan general election. After a grueling primary campaign against Peter Kenneth, Sonko ran for the Gubernatorial seat for Nairobi County under the Jubilee Party of Kenya and defeated the incumbent Evans Kidero to become the ...
Operation Linda Nchi ( Swahili: Linda Nchi; "Protect the Country") had the Kenya Defence Forces enter southern Somalia beginning in 2011. [46] [4] [47] The Kenyan government declared the operation completed in March 2012, but its forces then joined AMISOM in Somalia. [48] [49] [50]
He hosted The Larry Madowo Show [4] on Nation FM from August 2014 until June 2016 and wrote a weekly column in the Daily Nation every week named #FrontRow [5] from 5 August 2014 until 8 February 2018. In Kenya, he is best known for hosting a popular Friday night show called #TheTrend [6] on NTV Kenya [7] [8] from December 2012 until 30 June 2017.
The Minister of Finance of Kenya is a cabinet position held by the Minister responsible for the Ministry of Finance .