Kenya’s president has nominated the country’s interior minister as his new deputy. The nomination came hours after Rigathi Gachagua was overwhelmingly voted out as deputy president in an impeachment motion tabled in parliament over allegations of corruption and ethnic division.

The man who was the face of the Kenyan government in the aftermath of the police’s deadly crackdown on recent anti-tax protests is set to become the country’s next deputy president.

After the ousting of Kenyan Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, President William Ruto has nominated Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki as his new deputy

It’s the first impeachment under the country’s new Constitution, but some are now calling for a similar move against President William Ruto.

Kenyan President William Ruto has 14 days to nominate a new deputy after the historic impeachment of Rigathi Gachagua.

Should the nomination pass the parliament’s vote, Kindiki will replace impeached Rigathi Gachagua. Currently Kenya’s interior minister, Kindiki came under fire due to police’s treatment of the protests in the country.

The speaker of Kenya’s National Assembly annulled a vote to approve Interior Secretary Kithure Kindiki as the new deputy president, saying lawmakers will redo the process manually.

If Kenyan Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's removal on charges of stirring ethnic hatred and undermining judicial independence was unprecedented, aspects of the Senate's verdict late Thursday were very familiar to close watchers of the country's politics.

Kenya's parliament on Friday unanimously voted to back President William Ruto's pick to replace his impeached deputy Rigathi Gachagua, even as a High Court injunction threw the historic political proc