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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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Justice in question

In February 2012 the ICC did not confirm charges against Hussein Ali Kenya's police chief or Henry Kosgey a senior figure in Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...


Bye-election fever

Two bye-elections on 7 March were make-or-break events for two big political leaders: Raila Amolo Odinga of the opposition Coalition for Reform and Democracy and Deputy President William Samoei arap Ruto of the Jubilee Alliance Party...


2017 polls cast long shadow

President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Alliance will again fight Raila Amolo Odinga's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord)...


The figures don’t add up

Such economic jitters combined with many job losses in the tourism and transport businesses have prompted Raila Amolo Odinga's CORD to go on the political offensive after months of confusion and inaction (AC Vol 56 No 17 The opposition fall out)...


The opposition fall out

These are Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM); Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka of the Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya (WDM-K); Moses Simiyu Wetangula of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya (Ford-K); and Martha Wangari Karua of the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC)...

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Shame about the list

An opinion poll which followed his March speech and came during the Islamist militant attack on students at Garissa University College which began on 2 April and over which his government has been strongly criticised still had him at 49% 20 percentage points clear of his nearest rival Raila Odinga head of the opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (AC Vol 56 No 8 Garissa security shambles)...


What the prosecutor saw

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...


Economy up, security down

CORD and its leader former Prime Minister Raila Odinga could gain considerable Kalenjin support after a split between Jubilee's two wings...


Bribery trial

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...


Foreign boost for opposition

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)...


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