Kenya’s general election was always going to be a close-run thing, with a certain amount of political uncertainty baked into the outcome. Going into the weekend, Raila Odinga, the perennial opposition contender, has rejected the election commission’s announcement that William Ruto had beaten him, by a thin margin of 50.5% to 48.9%, to the presidency. Odinga has until next ...

  Indonesian President Joko Widodo has long put domestic concerns ahead of diplomacy. He’s now about to host one of the most significant geopolitical gatherings in years. He told Bloomberg News that Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping plan to attend the Group of 20 summit. For the image-conscious Jokowi, as he is known, that counts as a win ...

  Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd is dangling allowances of up to HK$5,000 ($640) a flight as a sweetener for pilots rostered on to fly in and out of mainland China, with ongoing Covid-19 curbs making it less appealing to work those routes. The Hong Kong-based airline’s dedicated Chinese mainland operations have “been particularly onerous,” the company acknowledged in a ...