But with members of Odinga's party joining the government after the youth-led protests that forced Ruto to backdown from increasing taxes, the political dynamics have changed - and the deputy president looks increasingly isolated.

Even so, China has warned Japan to backdown.

In its backdown, the government was also forced to refund over A$700m of payments to victims.

I looked backdown at my packet of supplemental materials.

The government offer amounted to a backdown by New Zealand after officials had earlier insisted that Charlotte Bellis needed to reapply for a spot in the country’s bottlenecked quarantine hotels.