Vol 1 (AAC) No 11 |
- KENYA
- JAPAN
Ito met Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and reiterated that Tokyo would meet all its scheduled commitments: a doubling of official Japanese aid (not including debt cancellation) to Africa over the next five years; doubling investment from Japanese companies; and ensuring greater transparency and international competitive bidding on all aid contracts...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 3 |
- KENYA
- ASIA
The Indian community's broad support for the incumbent Kibaki rather than his rival Raila Odinga might have triggered violence against their businesses...
With general elections coming up on 27 December the opinion polls give a slim lead to Raila Amolo Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...
Raila Odinga's ODM controls six of the eight provinces riding on widespread disaffection from Mwai Kibaki's government especially among the young and the poor who feel little benefit from his economic growth policies...
Raila Odinga's political organisation is much better coordinated and more focused than Mwai Kibaki's divided house...
The Raila Odinga Campaign Secretariat: Dr...
Judicial appointments could be crucial if next month's result is close; a narrow win for Kibaki would probably be challenged in court by his opponent Raila Odinga who would allege that the result was fixed...
Kibaki's main rival Raila Odinga has hired former United States President Bill Clinton's political spinmeister Dick Morris and is promising a new constitution under which the president will share power with a prime minister...
For the first time opposition leader Raila Odinga beat Kibaki in a national opinion poll published by the Steadman Group on 29 September...
There has been a deafening silence from presidential contenders such as Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka...
The previous week Moi had pledged to back Kibaki against opposition leader Raila Odinga and the Orange Democratic Movement in December's elections (AC Vol 48 No 17)...
Last week Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka left the ODM after weeks of tension with Raila Amolo Odinga its dominant figure...