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President Uhuru Kenyatta

Kenya’s political climate still has some ‘electric charge’ from the high-voltage campaigns that drove the 2017 General Election.

Caught between the magnetic field generated by the Opposition and Jubilee Party, President Uhuru Kenyatta is a harassed man. Walking the middle line is impossible, so Uhuru finds himself being forcefully pulled to one side at one point, then to the other at the next.

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