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How Kenya's President Broke the Social Contract


How Kenya's President Broke the Social Contract - Foreign Policy

Kenyan President William Ruto threatened to intensify the repression. He denounced the protests as “treasonous,” smeared its participants as “ ...

Foreign Policy on LinkedIn: How Kenya's President Broke the Social ...

This major political miscalculation has lost Kenyan President William Ruto the backing of the nation and deeply damaged Kenya's fragile ...

Ruto Broke the Social Contract - Foreign Policy Magazine | Everand

Kenyan President William Ruto threatened to intensify the repression. He denounced the protests as “treasonous,” smeared its participants as ...

Binaifer Nowrojee on LinkedIn: How Kenya's President Broke the ...

Of course, Ruto also inherited an enormous debt burden, 73% of which reportedly is owed to the Chinese government. His response was to ask the ...

Breaching the Social Contract? - Synergia Foundation

Caught by surprise with the vehemence of the protests, President Ruto eventually scrapped the contentious tax plan and called for dialogue with ...

Binaifer Nowrojee on X: "The violent repression in Kenya this week ...

The violent repression in Kenya this week has exposed the ... How Kenya's President Broke the Social Contract · From foreignpolicy ...

The Kenyan Uprising - CADTM

More than two months after its government's controversial Finance Bill 2024 sparked widespread unrest, the flame of resistance remains bright ...

Foreign Policy - X.com

Kenya demonstrates the dangers of policies that make people ... How Kenya's President Broke the Social Contract. From foreignpolicy ...

Kenyans Have Abdicated Their Social Contract With Each Other

As I write this, protesters in Nairobi are being tear gassed and arrested by police for demanding that the much-loathed Finance Bill 2023 be ...

Binaifer Nowrojee - Foreign Policy

... Nairobi, Kenya. How Kenya's President Broke the Social Contract · Analysis. |. Binaifer Nowrojee. June 28, 2024, 4:39 AM. Return to staff list. Latest ...

Kenyan protesters' anger at IMF: Justifiable or scapegoating?

Kenya's anti-government protesters have been venting their spleen at the International Monetary Fund, blaming the global financial institution for President ...

A Stronger U.S.-Kenya Partnership Must Center the Kenyan People

When youth-led protests broke out in response to the Kenya Finance Bill 2024, a proposed law raising new taxes on everyday necessities, Ruto's ...

Thursday briefing: How one controversial bill has Kenya on the brink ...

In today's newsletter: President William Ruto's unpopular finance bill has sparked a wave of protests – that have been met with brutality ...

Kenya's Catholic Bishops Expose "Culture of Lies" Under Ruto

The Catholic Church in Kenya has broken its usual political silence, signaling a crisis in the nation's governance. The Kenya Conference of ...

Kenyan President Rejects Bill That Led to Deadly Protests

A day after at least 23 people were killed in demonstrations against a tax increase, President William Ruto withdrew the law that he said ...

Kenyan President's Remarks on Judiciary Condemned - VOA News

Kenya's president is coming under criticism from judges, lawyers, legal experts and opposition groups after saying he won't respect court orders.

6 Kenya's Struggle against the Moi Dictatorship - Oxford Academic

They had watched their country turn into an autocracy, headed by President Daniel arap Moi. Like Pinochet, Moi resorted to deceit, fraud, repression, and ...

Kenya protests show citizens don't trust government with their tax ...

The tabling of the Finance Bill 2024 in parliament sparked one of the broadest protest actions in Kenya's history. President Ruto was forced ...

Constitutionalism for Convenience: How Kenyan Presidents Have ...

Founding Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta – hereafter Kenyatta I – begun the cannibalization of the independence constitution as early as 1964, when ...

Hustler Populism, Anti-Jubilee Backlash And Economic Injustice In ...

Deputy President William Ruto's victorious presidential campaign in Kenya's 2022 elections saw him champion the plight of the 'hustlers', young informal ...