Raila Amolo Odinga

In the aftermath of the signing of the power-sharing agreement on 28 February Raila Odinga turned to his adversary addressing him as 'My countryman President Mwai Kibaki'...

Trust between Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity and Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement hovers just above zero...

President Kibaki insisted on attending the African Union summit in Addis Ababa on 1-2 February to answer calls by Raila Odinga for the AU to send in peacekeepers to protect Kenyan civilians...

Suddenly Raila Odinga’s frequent comparisons between Kenya and Côte d’Ivoire look less outlandish...

However among other things he made the mistake of initiating back channel negotiations with Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement and working with the much criticised World Bank Country Director Colin Bruce (AC Vol 49 No 1)...

For opposition leader Raila Odinga who was gaoled for involvement in a thwarted coup in 1982 a military takeover and an interim administration to organise fresh elections might be the last resort if the violence spins out of control...

Attacked by the opposition at home and in Kenya Museveni flew to Nairobi in his capacity as roving EAC Chairman and helped to arrange the first meeting since violence broke out between Kibaki and Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement...

Such is the depth of despair about the intractability of the post-election crisis that many saw the meeting of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga arranged by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on 24 January as a great leap forward...

All over the Rift Valley there is war between the mainly Kikuyu supporters of President Mwai Kibaki and the Kalenjin who voted overwhelmingly for Raila Odinga...

The confrontation between rival presidential candidates Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga against a backdrop of widespread electoral fraud and communal violence claiming over 500 lives sends the worst possible signals about accountability and stability in East Africa and beyond...