This week Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga visiting the United States repeated his denouncement of the Mugabe regime labelling it an embarrassment for Africa...
Vol 49 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
When President Mwai Kibaki Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka flew off to Ethiopia the United States and Benin almost simultaneously they showed that Kenya’s coalition government is working at least for now...
Vol 49 No 11 |
- KENYA
- ANALYSIS
Power-sharing ambiguities The power-sharing deal seems deliberately ambiguous based on the theory that Mwai Kibaki (with his Party of National Unity PNU) would be President and Prime Minister Raila Odinga (with his Orange Democratic Movement ODM) would be in charge of government...
Kriegler and his Commissioners have started to receive testimony from members of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and from Raila Odinga and have opened up a ballot box from Makadara constituency...
Prime Minister Raila Odinga is battling to establish economic priorities for the next year...
The deal between President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga was better than a return to the political violence of January and February when few politicians tried to stop the slide and several seemed to be sponsoring it...
Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement had argued for 34 or less but Kibaki needed to maintain the fragile PNU alliance and to keep as many regions as possible on side...
Now they have gone beyond the region to build closer ties with Raila Odinga in Kenya (whose party they see as a possible model for Zimbabwe) and President John Kufuor of Ghana...
Just after Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement announced that it was pulling out of the talks violence broke out in Nairobi's Kibera slum and Kisumu both ODM strongholds...
When Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga referred to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as 'a dinosaur' last year his party received an angry phonecall from Futungo de Belas in Luanda warning that gratuitous insults against Comrade Mugabe would mean the end of campaign funds from oil-rich Angola for Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...