In late 2007 Kenyatta led the Kenya African National Union and the parliamentary opposition but he supported the then President Mwai Kibaki against challenger Raila Amolo Odinga in the December general elections...
CORD and its leader former Prime Minister Raila Odinga could gain considerable Kalenjin support after a split between Jubilee's two wings...
Vol 55 No 23 |
- KENYA
- BRITAIN
The Coalition for Reform and Democracy leader Raila Odinga claimed on 18 November that the Jubilee Coalition in conjunction with IEBC officials had arranged for 'extra ballot papers' printed by S&O to be smuggled into Kenya and used in 'Jubilee areas' to tip the vote in the Alliance's favour in March 2013...
Obasanjo has long been an influential power-broker in Africa; Ichikowitz the founder of Paramount Group has a network of business and political contacts including former President Joyce Banda of Malawi and Raila Odinga the opposition leader in Kenya (AC Vol 55 No 3 Banda and the jets)...
Curiously opposition leader Raila Amolo Odinga and CORD associates – Kibaki's former Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and former Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula – are shoring upKenyatta's political fortunes...
Cynics say it should really be called 'Okoa Raila Odinga'...
Vol 55 No 21 |
- MOZAMBIQUE
Foreign observer teams including the joint mission from the United States' Carter Center and the South African-based Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa which was led by Kenyan former Prime Minster Raila Odinga have issued a positive but nuanced verdict in advance of final results...
Odinga ally backs countiesHowever the Natural Resources (Benefits Sharing) Bill presented in the Senate last month by Agnes Philomena Zani of Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement proposes 32% to allocated county governments with 12...
Opposition leader Raila Odinga's campaign against Kenyatta's intervention in Somalia was in fact launched four years ago when Kibaki was President...
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Attempts by opposition leader Raila Amolo Odinga to put himself back on the political map are failing to spark the public imagination...
Leading the charge are Raila Amolo Odinga and his Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD)...
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