' The opposition led by Raila Odinga has spent much of its time since Ruto's election in August 2022 exploiting the hardship at the grassroots right up to the more comfortable middle class...

Rumours that Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete would stand have ebbed (Dispatches 21/2/24 Raila Odinga's bid for AU chair wins consensus in Nairobi)...

Last year Gachagua promised to make it impossible for Raila Odinga even to meet the President...

The race to succeed Moussa Faki Mahamat as chair of the African Union Commission (AUC) in February 2025 already has two contenders Tanzania's former president Jakaya Kikwete and Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga...

He formally declared his interest in the AUC job ahead of the African Union summit in February at a press conference alongside his friend Olusegun Obasanjo Nigeria's former president and has quickly secured the support of Kenya's political class (Dispatches 21/2/24 Raila Odinga's bid for AU chair wins consensus in Nairobi)...

The rivals for Raila's crown Raila Odinga's decision to swap domestic politics for the African Union has prompted a scramble for his mantle as Kenya's de facto opposition leader...

That is how Musyoka and his allies who see his candidacy as Ruto's main opponent in 2027 as a certainty view the situation (AC Vol 64 No 10 What does Raila Odinga want...

And in 2021 and 2022 it struck down the ambitious constitutional reform known as the Building Bridges Initiative that was designed by former President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga as part of the latter's failed bid for the presidency (AC Vol 62 No 17 The bridge collapses)...

Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga can still get his supporters onto the streets but at 78 shows little enthusiasm for another election campaign...

Wage gapMaking a presentation before a bipartisan committee set up by President Ruto and opposition Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga to discuss governance and political reforms in the wake of last year's disputed presidential elections the audit chief pointed to her own wages which she said appear in the Treasury's official records as being three times higher than the sum she actually receives...

Raila Odinga's opposition Azimio la Umoja coalition condemned the Privatisation Bill contending that 'these entities some of which are critical to our nation's security must be allowed to continue serving public good rather than lining the pockets of individuals...

Ruto and his camp led the campaign to mothball the scheme describing it as a vote-rigging device designed to favour Kenyatta's political ally Raila Odinga...

Before last year's national elections Mudavadi and his Amani National Congress broke with Raila Odinga's opposition Azimio la Umoja coalition but he didn't bring the substantial numbers of Luhya votes that Ruto's camp had expected...

The prospect of a political deal between President William Ruto and opposition Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga is unsettling some of their followers and allies who fear they could lose out in any new partition of the spoils of power...

The bill was tabled by opposition MP George Kaluma a member of Raila Odinga's Azimio la Umoja but appears to have cross-party support...