A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

At Kenyatta's death ( August 22, 1978 ), Vice President Daniel arap Moi became interim President.

Kenyatta died in 1978 and was succeeded by Daniel Arap Moi ( b. 1924 ) who ruled as President 1978-2002.

The head of government is President of the General Council Daniel Zaidani.

Whilst on a state visit to Russia in December 2008, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega expressed his desire to travel to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the future, and stated that Nicaragua is in solidarity with the people of the two countries.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa refer to their political programmes as socialist.

* 1924 – Daniel arap Moi, Kenyan politician, 2nd President of Kenya

In the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, former FSLN President Daniel Ortega was re-elected President of Nicaragua with 38. 7 % of the vote compared to 29 % for his leading rival, bringing in the country's second Sandinista government after 16 years of the opposition winning elections.

The " Zero Hunger Program ", which aims to reduce poverty in the rural areas over a five-year period, was inaugurated by President Daniel Ortega and other members of his administration in the northern department of Jinotega.

* Daniel Ortega, post-revolution junta head, then President from 1985, lost presidential elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, but continues to control the FSLN party

* Sergio Ramirez, novelist and civilian Sandinista, architect of alliance with moderates in 1970s, Vice President in 1980s, opponent of Daniel Ortega in 1990s

Ted Williams was born in San Diego as Teddy Samuel Williams, named after his father, Samuel Stuart Williams, and former President, Teddy Roosevelt, although Williams claimed that his middle name stemmed from one of his mother's brothers ( in truth, her dead brother was Daniel Venzor ) who had been killed in World War I.

These have included: Hugh Pelham, Director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology ; Daniel St. Johnston, Chairman of the Gurdon Institute ; Jim Smith, Director of the MRC National Institute for Medical Research ; Richard Treisman, Director of CRUK London Research Institute and Peter Lachmann, Founding President of The Academy of Medical Sciences.

In any case, the AMP convention unanimously nominated William Henry Harrison for President and Daniel Webster for Vice President.

The White House remained accessible in other ways ; President Abraham Lincoln complained that he was constantly beleaguered by job seekers waiting to ask him for political appointments or other favors, or eccentric dispensers of advice like “ General ” Daniel Pratt, as he began the business day.

* President Daniel Ortega ( Nicaragua )

* February 28 – President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega announces a cease-fire with the U. S .- backed contras.

** Bolivian President Daniel Salamanca deposed.

On October 14, Moi became President formally after he was elected head of KANU and designated its sole nominee.

President Moi won re-election as President in the December 1997 elections, and his KANU Party narrowly retained its parliamentary majority.

Constitutionally barred from running in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor.

In the military ( and also the Police and GSU ), there is a virtual monopoly of President Moi ’ s ethnic group, the Kalenjin, in the top brass.

Negotiations between the Okello government and the NRA were conducted in Nairobi in the fall of 1985, with Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi seeking a cease-fire and a coalition government in Uganda.

In 1989 Richard Leakey was appointed the head of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Department ( WMCD ) by President Daniel Arap Moi in response to the international outcry over the poaching of elephants and the impact it was having on the wildlife of Kenya.

Richard Leakey, President Arap Moi and the WMCD made the international news headlines when a stock pile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in 1989 in Nairobi National Park.

Daniel Toroitich arap Moi ( born 2 September 1924 ) is a Kenyan politician who was the President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002.

Daniel arap Moi is popularly known to Kenyans as " Nyayo ", a Swahili word for " footsteps ", as he was said to be following the footsteps of the first Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta.

Daniel arap Moi and President of the United States George W. Bush

Some of his supporters floated the idea of amending the constitution to allow him to run for a third term, but Moi preferred to retire, choosing Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor.

When Daniel arap Moi succeeded Jomo Kenyatta as President of Kenya in 1978, Kibaki was elevated to Vice Presidency, and kept the Finance portfolio until Moi changed his ministerial portfolio from Finance to Home Affairs in 1982.

Kibaki fell out of favour with President Moi in 1988, and was dropped as Vice President and moved to the Ministry of Health.

A group of disappointed KANU presidential aspirants then quit KANU in protest after being overlooked by outgoing President Moi when Moi had founding Father Jomo Kenyatta's son, Uhuru Kenyatta, nominated to be the KANU presidential candidate, and hurriedly formed the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ).

President Daniel Arap Moi, who had been Kenya's second president for 24 years since 1978, also began his retirement.

President Kibaki's first term was about reviving and turning round the Kenyan economy after years of economic mis-management during the Moi years-a feat that was largely attained in the face of great challenges, including the President's ill health at the time, and political tension culminating in the break-up of the NARC coalition. The introduction of free primary education, was a great milestone.

The Politics of Kenya take place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Kenya is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

The President of Kenya is the commander-in-chief of all the armed forces.

* 1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.

One such event was endorsed by Mwai Kibaki, the President of Kenya.

* November 15 – Mwai Kibaki, third President of Kenya

Burning Spear was originally Rodney's group, named after a military award given by Jomo Kenyatta, the first Prime Minister and President of an independent Kenya, and including bass singer Rupert Willington.

DVB-T broadcasts were launched by the President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki on the 9th of December 2009.

* Alberto Fujimori ( born 1938 ), President of Peru from July 28, 1990 to November 17, 2000 ( also known as Kenya Fujimori )

On December 30, 2002, Mwai Kibaki was sworn in as the third President of Kenya.

( born 15 November 1931 ) is a Kenyan politician who has been the third President of Kenya since December 2002.

In early 1960, Mwai Kibaki left academia for politics when he gave up his job at Makerere and returned to Kenya to become executive officer of Kenya African National Union ( KANU ), at the request of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga ( who went on to become Kenya's first Vice President ).

On 29 December 2002, still nursing injuries from the motor vehicle accident and in a wheel chair, Mwai Kibaki was sworn-in as the third President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kenya in a boisterous, chaotic and jubilant ceremony held at the open grounds of Uhuru Park, Nairobi .. " I am inheriting a country which has been badly ravaged by years of misrule and ineptitude ," he stated at his swearing-in, as quoted by Andrew England of the Associated Press.

About his decision Kibaki said, “ Following the results of the Referendum, it has become necessary for me, as the President of the Republic, to re-organise my Government to make it more cohesive and better able to serve the people of Kenya ".

The President has also overseen the coming into being of the Vision 2030, a development plan aimed at raising GDP growth to 10 % annually and transforming Kenya into a middle income country, which he unveiled on 30 October 2006.

President Kibaki is officially married to First Lady of Kenya Lucy Muthoni.

Jomo Kenyatta < sup > pron .</ sup > ( 1894 – 22 August 1978 ) served as the first Prime Minister ( 1963 – 1964 ) and President ( 1964 – 1978 ) of Kenya.

On 1 June 1964, Kenyatta became President when he successfully had Parliament amend the Constitution to make Kenya a republic with his office becoming executive President: the head of State, head of Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.