Raila Amolo Odinga

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

Last year’s barroom joke that the USA would have a Luo president before Kenya (Obama’s father hailed from Nyanza) was intended to mock the presidential ambitions of Luo leader Raila Odinga; it quickly soured amid the post-election violence that killed more than 1 000 Kenyans this year...

Unable to fully satisfy all his party's ethnic constituencies its leader Prime Minister Raila Odinga has to manage dissent on two fronts...

William Ruto the putative Kalenjin leader and Raila Odinga's most important ally in the Rift Valley has remained generally silent on the matter but is likely to leverage Kalenjin discontent to shore up his position in the party...

In turn Tsvangirai has been keenly studying how Kenya’s former opposition leader Raila Odinga has managed to dominate his country’s politics this year from his vantage point as Prime Minister; but Tsvangirai lacks Odinga’s political canniness and President Mwai Kibaki lacks Mugabe’s grim determination to keep his grip on power until the end...

Raila Odinga told Africa Confidential that he and Obama kept in contact but media claims that they were related were wrong: his mother and Obama’s father were from the same village in Nyanza...

The minister’s convenience The Judge’s apparent belief tends to favour the ECK and protect President Mwai Kibaki putting him at odds with Premier Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and civil society activists...