The Mountain Journal team Ford Foundation has denied sponsoring anarchy,violence and chaos in Kenya, as claimed by President William Ruto. “ We do not fund or sponsor the recent protest against the finance bill and have a strict non-partisan for all or grantmaking.
By Mike Wendling, BBC News Donald Trump has picked JD Vance as his running mate. “I’m a ‘never Trump’ guy. I never liked him.” “My god what an idiot.” “I find him reprehensible.” That was from JD Vance in interviews and on Twitter in 2016, when the publication of his memoir Hillbilly Elegy catapulted him to fame….
President William Ruto has revealed the identities of suspected foreign entities funding the Gen Z protests in Kenya. He said America funded Ford Foundation was behind the chaos that has rocked the country. Speaking in Nakuru County, he said the country was facing pressure from the Generation Z to reform his government, as he singled out…
By Kathryn Armstrong, BBC News Former US President Donald Trump has said he is “supposed to be dead” after Saturday night’s assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania. In one of his first interviews since the incident, Mr Trump told conservative US media he felt that he had been saved “by luck or by God”. “The most…
By Barbara Plett Usher, BBC Africa correspondent, Nairobi In Kenya, the youth protests against planned tax increases have served as a wake-up call for the Church. They’ve shaken up a powerful institution, in a country where more than 80% of the population, including the president, are Christian. The young demonstrators accused the Church of siding with the…
By Sarah Smith, North America Editor The extraordinary images of a defiant Donald Trump pumping his fist in the air, with blood on his face, being rushed off the stage by the Secret Service are not just history-making – they may well alter the course of November’s presidential election. This shocking act of political violence will inevitably…
President William Ruto should constitute a new cabinet without further delay, after he dissolved it on Thursday.. Following weeks of protests against his administration, the President grabbed the accountability bull by the horns and sacked all his Cabinet Secretaries, save for one, Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi. In a 12-minute speech, the…
By Matt Murphy, BBC NewsShare Five people linked to one of Ecuador’s biggest criminal gangs have been jailed for the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio last year. Mr Villavicencio, a member of the country’s national assembly and an ex-journalist, was shot dead as he left a campaign rally in the capital, Quito, last August. Carlos Angulo,…
By Christal Hayes, Holly Honderich & Rachel Looker, BBC News Knives are out for Joe Biden after his poorly received performance in the first 2024 presidential debate against Donald Trump. With November’s election bearing down, a growing number of Democrats are calling on the president to step aside due to concerns about his mental fitness. Around a dozen…
Kenya’s under-fire President William Ruto has dismissed with “immediate effect” all his ministers and the attorney-general, following the recent deadly protests that led to the withdrawal of an unpopular tax bill. The president said the move came after “reflection, listening to Kenyans, and after holistic appraisal of my cabinet”. He has said he will now…
