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Raila Amolo Odinga

Date of Birth: 2 January 1945
Place of Birth: Maseno, Kisumo District, Nyanza Province


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Jubilee aims to win it in one

Early polls gave the leader of the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) Prime Minister Raila Odinga a narrow lead but several factors have moved to Jubilee’s advantage...


Pitfalls ahead for foreigners

On the national stage Kenyatta and Ruto have lost no opportunity to call the ICC process an infringement of Kenyan sovereignty orchestrated by Raila Odinga...


Swing counties hold the key

Neither the Jubilee Coalition’s Uhuru Kenyatta nor Prime Minister Raila Odinga of the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) has been able to make inroads into the other’s electoral strongholds...

Although some think he can deliver the Luhya vote in Western Kenya on several occasions in the past he has damaged himself politically by picking the wrong horse notably during the walkout from the Kenya African National Union (KANU) which Raila Odinga led during the 2002 elections...


Nairobi’s governing passions

Seeing that endorsement by the ODM leader Prime Minister Raila Odinga was the key to winning the nomination Wanjiru and Kidero vied viciously behind the scenes for his favour...


By Skype from The Hague

The novelty of TV and expectations that sparks would fly between the frontrunners Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Kenyatta attracted an audience of over 44 million people...


Flashpoints on the margins

It is highly unlikely that the case will go against the Jubilee Alliance given the potential implications for political stability but if it did it could trigger attacks by Kenyatta and Ruto loyalists on groups allied to Premier Raila Odinga most notably on Luo people...


Odinga’s fiasco

Then Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement annoyed people in his Nyanza stronghold where many of his cronies held on to their seats through rigged primaries and direct nominations...

Opinion polls in Nyanza suggest that there is little decline in enthusiasm for the Raila Odinga-Kalonzo Musyoka Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) presidential ticket...


Kilelengwani burns

President Mwai Kibaki has nominated several close allies all of whom Prime Minister Raila Odinga rejected further delaying security reform...


A rough, tough battle ahead

Given how important these elections are for the two leading presidential candidates Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and given the fresh memories of administrative chaos and electoral malpractice in the December 2007 elections tensions will rise between now and March 2013...


Ethnic arithmetic

Prime Minister Raila Odinga has had an awful year...


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