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Kenyan President William Ruto has dismissed almost his entire cabinet and announced consultations to form a “broad-based government” after weeks of sometimes deadly anti-government protests against planned tax hikes. <\/em><\/p>\n Ruto said the move, announced on Thursday, affects all ministers including the attorney-general.<\/p>\n Only Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi have held onto their posts, the president said.<\/p>\n Ruto said his decision was taken “upon reflection,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Kenyan President William Ruto has dismissed almost his entire cabinet and announced consultations to form a “broad-based government” after weeks of sometimes deadly anti-government protests against planned tax hikes. Ruto said the move, announced on Thursday, affects all ministers including the attorney-general. Only Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi have held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,32144,6467,12843,4688,430,257,2450,5253,254],"class_list":["post-176363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antigovernment","tag-cabinet","tag-dismisses","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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