Raila Amolo 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...

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...

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...