Taking a page from Vladimir Putin’s playbook, the Uhuru Kenyatta’s government is all-in on its strategy of bashing the international community.
Taking a page from Vladimir Putin’s playbook, the Uhuru Kenyatta’s government is all-in on its strategy of bashing the international community.
Deputy Kenyan President likely has to attend his trial for crimes against humanity, testing his regional coalition of ICC critics.
Collapse of the trial against Kenya’s deputy president speaks to a systematic push by African leaders to discredit the Western court.
The move counts as one of the strongest official repudiations thus far of the ICC and will surely further undermine the court’s standing on the African continent, where it is already widely unpopular.
He inherits a country politically divided yet poised to grow economically.
Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto ran a heavy-on-the-tribalism campaign focused less on development than on their upcoming cases with the International Criminal Court.
ICC indictees Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto are high in the running to lead the nation.
Unrest ahead of March elections has potentially catastrophic effects for the region.