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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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In office, but not in power

The 14th Floor of the Treasury Building that Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his modest staff occupy has been the office of Kenya's finance minister since the 1980s and has seen some important moments in recent history...

In the early 1990s Raila Odinga sued a former occupant of the office Finance Minister George Saitoti for his role in the Goldenberg scandal...


Words like freedom

He had been severely beaten receiving permanent injuries from a government-sponsored militia for investigating election-rigging in Prime Minister Raila Odinga's former parliamentary constituency in Nairobi's Langata suburb...


An African 'war on terror'

The sect's leader Maina Njenga gaoled in 2007 for possession of marijuana and guns had declared from his Kamiti Prison cell that the Mungiki had supported Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement during the last election and had not participated in the post-poll violence...


A mutual security pact

The poll also found that Prime Minister Raila Odinga of the ODM remains the most popular politician...


The briefcase tycoon is back

Last year one of his launch events was attended by Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka as well as eight cabinet ministers...


Courts and killings

Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement held a conclave of its cabinet ministers on 5 January and of its National Executive Council two days later...


Go East, old man

Now with leaders such as Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Botswana’s President Seretse Khama Ian Khama denouncing the ZANU-PF regime as illegal and Odinga demanding the African Union take action to remove Mugabe the mood in Africa has changed...


More unga than chungwa

Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement had promised lower rents and food prices but its supporters are now paying more for both – thanks to domestic turmoil and the international slowdown...


Who fixed the election and how

A survey of 19 of the most controversial constituencies showed errors by the ECK at all stages with an undercounting of Mwai Kibaki’s votes as much as those of Raila Odinga...


Calling politicians to account

Conspiracy-minded supporters of President Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) claim there was an opposition spy in Gichangi's office passing information to Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...


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