Sentences with phrase «kenyan president»

British broadcaster Channel 4 News also aired undercover footage this week of the firm's chief executive, Alexander Nix, and a colleague claiming that they secretly ran the 2013 and 2017 election campaigns of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Cambridge Analytica was used twice to help secure victory for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta - first in 2013, then again in 2017.

But in the course of the sting, CA officials boast of writing the manifesto and even the speeches of Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, and smearing his rival Raila Odinga.

«SCL subsequently advised the client (one of Kenya's two principal parties) on communications, branding and policy,» the document states, possibly referring to Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, who is reported to have used (paywall) the firm's services in 2013 and 2017.

In a video released by Channel 4, CEO Nix is heard saying the company helped Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's campaigns for the 2013 and 2017 elections.

The role of the company again came under scrutiny when it was hired by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who was victorious as the incumbent in the 8 August 2017 general election, the aftermath of which saw deadly pre — and post-election violence.

Ivory destruction ceremonies have been a litmus test for where a country stands on the ivory trade ever since Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi torched 13 tons of ivory in 1989, setting the stage for a vote to ban international trade in ivory by parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Canadian solar developer SkyPower said it plans to double its investment in Kenya's solar infrastructure to $ 4.4 billion after meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in New York, according to a report in PVTech.

In a country where leaders are pushing for more technology for students (in 2013, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged to provide free laptops to all schoolchildren), a kindle may be a more practical solution if well convinced.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, pictured here in Berlin in April, has signed into law a bill that criminalizes cyberbullying and the spread of misinformation.

Former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi began incinerating stockpiles of ivory in 1989 at the same time as the ban on the international trade in ivory came into effect.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has set fire to 11 giant pyres of elephant tusks to show his country's resolve to stamp out the illegal ivory trade and save elephants.

Cambridge Analytica was used twice to help secure victory for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta - first in 2013, then again in 2017.

I presume he would have also congratulated the Kenyan president after the acting president of Nigeria has also congratulated him.

Sources say the erroneous report so angered Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and his top military and police leaders that they complained bitterly to the U.S. Ambassador in Nairobi and cut off communication with the State Department and various federal law enforcement agencies in Africa that were assisting the investigation, sources said.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, pictured here in Berlin in April, has signed into law a bill that criminalizes cyberbullying and the spread of misinformation.

The firm has been tied to electoral campaigns around the world, including for US President Donald Trump and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is headed for a landslide win in the absence of his main rival Raila Odinga who boycotted the vote, however, his legitimacy will be sorely questioned with initial figures showing only about a third of registered voters turned up.

Nairobi (AFP)-- Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said Thursday that a Supreme Court ruling annulling his recent election victory was a «coup» that stole democracy from the people.

Violence erupted after the re-election of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta this week, leaving at least 24 people dead nationwide, a rights group said.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Saturday the country has «a problem» with its judiciary that must be fixed.

Some said it was a symbol of the part - Kenyan president's ancestral dislike of the British empire — of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender.»

Several concerns have been raised about the poor work that went into the editing of the brochure which had unpardonable errors such as naming Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta as the president of the Republic of Ghana.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission said Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta maintained his strong lead in the presidential election count with 85 per cent of polling stations reporting.

If he is to follow Nyerere and build a nation, President Kenyatta must do what no Kenyan president has done before: articulate a common Kenyan identity that all citizens can feel a part of.

«The President's foreign policy team read and was deeply offended by the Boris article that talked of Barack Obama as «incoherent, inconsistent and downright hypocritical... a part - Kenyan President.»

«When Wole Soyinka won the Nobel prize for literature, he belonged to all of Africa, not just Nigeria, and when Lupita Nyong» o won the Academy Award, she was holding that Oscar for all of Africa, not just for Kenya, and, so, when 14 - year - old Abraham Attah won the Independent Spirit Award, he was not just representing his country, he was being applauded by all of Africa, though I'm sure we applauded the loudest because he is one of us and he is a face of our proud country Ghana,» Mr Mahama told the anniversary celebration, which was honoured by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and President of Guinea Bissau José Mário Vaz, as well as former Ghanaian presidents John Rawlings and John Kufuor.

In a speech to the national assembly and the senate, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta cited David Cameron's human rights attack, in what he framed as a global battle between national sovereignty and over-enthusiastic courts.

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta cited the Tory attack on human rights just days before appearing before the International Criminal Court in the Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

Kenyatta, 55, the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president, is trying to avoid becoming the first Kenyan president not to win re-election.

The Kenyan President stood up to the American President after his chastisement, and pointed out that Kenyans do not agree with the enlightened superiority of the superpower in question, and are concerned with much more basic aspects of civil society, and affirmed their right to govern their own nation.

According to The Times newspaper Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said after meeting with Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu: «Kenya and Israel, just like other nations of the world, are facing the challenges of terrorism and today was a great opportunity to discuss ways of dealing with the issues.

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It gathered survey data on Kenyans to aid the campaign and managed the president's image, according to current and former company employees speaking to Privacy International.

You could have stopped at «No American President has ever been born in a foriegn country» because that is the truth, no matter how much you want there to be some 50 year old sinister conspiracy from some Kenyan Muslim cabal.

Does going back to President Obama's father being Kenyan makes him a muslim?

president Uhuru Kenyatta has declared to announce a two week public holiday in Kenya to celebrate the day Wenger retires... kudos to Arsenal fc family (Wenger excluded) kudos yo Kenyan athletics team

In addition to a new president, Kenyans are electing lawmakers and local representatives, the result of a 2010 constitution that devolved power and money to the counties, reducing the «winner takes all» nature of the presidential race.

Given this, Deputy President William Ruto and the Kenyan government should be careful how they talk about the Somali community and the refugees at Dadaab camp.

He said «John Dramani Mahama had benefitted from such a situation in the Presidential petition of 2013 and cynically thought his good friend, the President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, whom he had invited as the special guest of honour during Ghana's independent Celebrations in 2016, would have the benefit of the docility of the Kenyan Supreme Court just as he was the beneficiary of Ghana's razor thin edge Supreme Court decision in 2013.

At the end of the memorial service in Eldoret, President Buhari would proceed to Nairobi for bilateral talks on Thursday with Kenyan Government officials led by President Kenyatta.

For example, out of 347 expected incoming MPs, a minimum of 47 were to be women, a gender equality measure that had already been viewed as «technically impossible» [vi] by President Kibaki before going on to spark constitutional confrontation between the President and the Kenyan High Court over county commissioner appointments.

But the citizen vigilante who has been a critic of the former President said he has no doubt that Mahama's cynical advice to Mr. Odinga was informed by past decisions of the Kenyan Supreme Court.

Former President John Mahama advised Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, to go to court over the country's presidential election.

Upon his arrival in Nairobi, the President would alongside his host, President Uhuru Kenyatta and other dignitaries participate in the memorial service for Kenyan fallen soldiers who were killed by Al - Shabaab in Somalia on January 15.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

But Okudzeto Ablakwa chose to give the impression in his feature article devoted to insulting me with reckless abandon that he respects elders, at least in the NDC, and excuses his attacks on me for exercising my right to free speech in congratulating the Kenyan Supreme Court for the Court's decision annulling the 8th August 2017 elections on the flimsy ground that I had attacked «the former President» whom I believe is supposedly dumb figuratively and therefore unable to speak for himself.

Despite being suspected of crimes against humanity by the ICC, Uhuru Kenyatta holds a three-fold unique position in the eyes of Kenyans: He is the son of independence leader Jomo Kenyatta; he is believed by many to be the richest man in the country; and he is considered a natural representative of out - going President Kibaki's core ethnic region, the Kikuyu (the single largest tribe in Kenya).

According to him, Mahama «benefitted from such a situation in the Presidential petition of 2013 and cynically thought President Uhuru Kenyatta would have the benefit of the docility of the Kenyan Supreme Court.»

Many Kenyans interpreted the fall - out between President Kibaki and Raila Odinga as evidence that leaders could not be trusted to keep their pre-election promises and that multi-ethnic governments would always be divided and unstable.

But I was dissuaded from doing so when I read two other feature articles on the Modern Ghana website of that day and I realized that his insults and condemnation of my article congratulating the Kenyan Supreme Court and questioning the integrity of John Dramani Mahama to accept to be an observer in an election in which the whole world knew that the incumbent President in that election is his personal friend, had been answered by two more mature contributors.