Raila Amolo Odinga

Trust between Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity and Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement hovers just above zero...

President Kibaki insisted on attending the African Union summit in Addis Ababa on 1-2 February to answer calls by Raila Odinga for the AU to send in peacekeepers to protect Kenyan civilians...

Suddenly Raila Odinga’s frequent comparisons between Kenya and Côte d’Ivoire look less outlandish...

However among other things he made the mistake of initiating back channel negotiations with Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement and working with the much criticised World Bank Country Director Colin Bruce (AC Vol 49 No 1)...

For opposition leader Raila Odinga who was gaoled for involvement in a thwarted coup in 1982 a military takeover and an interim administration to organise fresh elections might be the last resort if the violence spins out of control...

Attacked by the opposition at home and in Kenya Museveni flew to Nairobi in his capacity as roving EAC Chairman and helped to arrange the first meeting since violence broke out between Kibaki and Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement...

Such is the depth of despair about the intractability of the post-election crisis that many saw the meeting of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga arranged by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on 24 January as a great leap forward...

All over the Rift Valley there is war between the mainly Kikuyu supporters of President Mwai Kibaki and the Kalenjin who voted overwhelmingly for Raila Odinga...

The confrontation between rival presidential candidates Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga against a backdrop of widespread electoral fraud and communal violence claiming over 500 lives sends the worst possible signals about accountability and stability in East Africa and beyond...

Without serious efforts now to resolve the impasse between Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity and Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement there are just a few steps to a total paralysis of government the declaration of a state of emergency and rule by decree...

Raila Odinga’s ODM with 99 elected seats (and six nominated seats) will be the biggest party and ODM members are determined to sit on the government benches because of their insistence that Kibaki and his PNU (with 43 elected seats) did not win the presidential election...

The easiest target will be the ODM-Kenya party which was formed by failed presidential contender Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka following his falling-out with Raila Odinga last year...