Vol 52 No 15 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Others who put on the pressure included Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Premier Raila Odinga who each brought delegations of 50 or so Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who brought what a witness described as ‘an outrageous convoy including a private ambulance that looked armoured’ and South African President Jacob Zuma whose armoured personnel carriers had to be moved on by the SPLA because they were blocking the way for everybody else...
Devani had links to Gichuru a top Kenya African National Union politician and attended functions with President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
The President and the Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga had set up a closed nomination panel breaking the new constitution’s rules which call for a publicly accountable process...
The state media’s bid to brand ZANU-PF’s partner in the Government of National Unity the Movement for Democratic Change as a violent party even included a vicious attack on Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga as a ‘man of violence’ when he opened the MDC congress in May...
The Secretary General of the Consumer Federation of Kenya Stephen Mutoro reminded demonstrators of the still unsolved Triton oil scandal (AC Vol 51 No 4) while civil society groups criticised President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga for not mentioning the price rises...
In Eldoret Murang'a Kiambu Nakuru Kakamega and elsewhere Kenyatta and Ruto hammered away at Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga accusing him of being responsible for the violence and claiming that he was supporting the ICC in order to eliminate them before the 2012 election...
Yet Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka joined the convoy to Uhuru Park along with ministers Kiraitu Murungi (Energy) and Samuel Poghisio (Information and Communications) who are both from President Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity and Sally Kosgei (Agriculture) Najib Balala and other former stalwarts of Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement...
So he wrote to President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga claiming that the US ‘partnership’ with Kenya rested on ‘shared democratic values’...
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has now written to the UNSC asking it to ignore Kenya’s request for deferral...
Vol 52 No 4 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki whose own election in 2007 was violently disputed has opened an independent channel of communication with Gbagbo but mainly to undermine his Prime Minister Raila Odinga the AU Envoy to Côte d’Ivoire...
The latest dispute between President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga began in late January when Odinga accused Kibaki of failing to consult him about nominations to the soon-to-be-vacated positions of Chief Justice Attorney General (AG) and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)...