Nairobi

The Nairobi Dispatch: Ruto Calls His Critics 'Noisemakers,' ODM Walks Into a Trap, Sama Fires 1,108, and a Father in Meru Does the Unspeakable

Sunday in Nairobi. The Nairobi Dispatch introduces itself with the observation that, as weeks for political columnists go, this one required no embellishment. The facts did the work. I shall present them with the seasoning they need and no more.

Ruto in Mandera: “Noisemakers and Vision-less”

President William Ruto spent part of Friday in Mandera County. Reading from what appears to have been the morning’s prepared remarks, he dismissed his political opponents as “noisemakers and vision-less,” questioned whether they could locate Border Point One on a map, and asked rhetorically whether any of them had been to Rhamu or Wajir.