Raila Amolo Odinga

KENYA: The stand-off over the new constitution between President Mwai Kibaki's supporters and those of Raila Odinga will dominate politics...

Raila Odinga Kalonzo Musyoka and Musalia Mudavadi have announced their interest...

Kibaki left out all seven ministers from the Liberal Democratic Party faction of the coalition including Raila Odinga and Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka who had campaigned for rejection of the constitution...

The Orange victory prompted Kibaki to sack his entire cabinet and prorogue parliament on 25 November; the Orange campaigners led by Raila Odinga called for new national elections (AC Vol 46 Nos 21 & 23)...

There are memories of 1997 when a national alliance between ex-President Daniel arap Moi (widely accused of funding the 'No' campaign) and Raila Odinga marginalised the mainly Kikuyu politicians in Kibaki's Democratic Party despite economic mismanagement and rampant corruption...

The referendum has relaunched or unmade several political careers: Raila Odinga: The referendum brought his rivalry with President Mwai Kibaki to a head...

The 'no' group of Orange Revolutionaries is led by Public Works Minister Raila Amolo Odinga...

President Mwai Kibaki's National Alliance of Kenya (NAK) is for bananas; Public Works Minister Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) prefers oranges...

The bizarre pas de deux between President Mwai Kibaki and cabinet dissident Raila Odinga raises doubts as to whether the President can win the national referendum on the new constitution in November...

We hear Karegeya is also accused of 'inappropriate' relations with politicians such as Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete and Kenya's Raila Odinga - the FPR regime considers both hostile...

The prospects of a deal have been helped by Raila Odinga Public Works Minister and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Rainbow Coalition who has called a truce in his long feud with Kibaki...

Others notably Raila Odinga and his colleagues in the Liberal Democratic Party say Biwott's appointment would finally split the government...