While the leaders of Egypt Ethiopia Djibouti and Mozambique brought their official staff to China's recent Belt and Road Forum last week Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta also brought the nominal leader of the opposition Raila Odinga and his staff...
Former leaders of the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) Raila Odinga Kalonzo Musyoka Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetang'ula led government teams around the country to promote the card...
Even his landmark reconciliation with Raila Odinga the unprecedented open friendship between the long-rival Odinga and Kenyatta families and the political calm this has brought to the country has brought Uhuru no respite...
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Yet another sign: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta the only head of state to attend was present along with his own newly-reconciled enemy Raila Odinga...
Kenya's political landscape in 2019 will be dominated by two-way competition between Deputy President William Ruto of the ruling Jubilee Party and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) as each man positions himself for the presidential election of 2022...
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There is satisfaction at the internal peace brought by the burial of the hatchet with opposition leader Raila Odinga in March but disappointment in the gap between lofty pronouncements and action on the ground especially over corruption...
On Tuesday 18 September President Uhuru Kenyatta's governing Jubilee party and the opposition (at least in name) National Super Alliance (Nasa) led by Raila Odinga held separate emergency parliamentary group meetings with one common aim: to marshal their MPs to support a revised budget for the current financial year (July 2018 to June 2019)...
He led with 30% against 14% for Raila Amolo Odinga followed by Ali Hassan Joho Governor of Mombasa Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and others...
Minority Leader John Mbadi who leads Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement group in Parliament argued that government over-borrowing had made Kenya vulnerable to international lenders...
Five months after the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga and its promise to build bridges between Kenya's hostile ethnic groups Odinga seems to be emerging as the major beneficiary...
Every politician in Nairobi has a favourite theory about the causes and consequences of the rapprochement between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga on 9 March and what it means for Deputy President William Ruto...