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How UhuRuto’s obsession with populist projects made and destroyed the economy

The Standard Gauge Railway is President Uhuru Kenyatta's grandest project. [File, Standard]

In this first of a four-part series, we look at President Uhuru Kenyatta’s economic legacy slicing through the interplay between his politics and the economy

Building toilets in Raila Odinga’s political bedrock of Kibera slum is all that the new Jubilee Government needed to vanquish the former prime minister.

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