As everyone expected the activists of Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Musikari Kombo's Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya (Ford-K) have rejected Kibaki's demands...
Kenya group ahead of 2007 allowing them to drop the troublesome partnership with Raila Odinga and the LDP...
Raila Odinga with his secure base among the Luo of Nyanza Province is as determined as ever and remains controller of the most cohesive swing-vote in the country...
Vol 46 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Almost as problematic are Kenya's national political alliances and the growing estrangement between President Mwai Kibaki's National Alliance of Kenya and Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party...
Vol 45 No 15 |
- KENYA
- BRITAIN
For some in the Mount Kenya group circling the Kibaki presidency Clay's tactics were proof of covert support for Raila Odinga's wing of the coalition government...
For now there is an armed truce between the two main factions of the NARC government: Public Works Minister Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) which wants a devolution of power to district authorities a reduction of the President's executive powers and the creation of a new Prime Minister post; and Kibaki's National Alliance of Kenya (NAK) which wants much less devolution of power to the districts no reduction of the President's executive powers and a Prime Minister who would have no executive powers and would be appointed by the President...
Vol 45 No 5 |
- AFRICA
- DIAMONDS
of a 51 per cent controlling stake in Spectre International which was set up and part-owned by members of the family of Raila Odinga Kenya's Minister of Public Works and perhaps one day prime minister if constitutional reforms go through...
The split between the business-dominated 'Mount Kenya Mafia' around President Mwai Kibaki and the populists around Roads and Public Works Minister Raila Odinga looks irreparable...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
The fundamental schism is between the National Alliance for Kenya led by Kibaki and Liberal Democratic Party led by Public Works Minister Raila Odinga...
On the night of 11 December while President Mwai Kibaki was preparing to celebrate 40 years of Kenya's Independence his Minister for Public Works Raila Amolo Odinga was holding a star-studded party at the United Kenya Club in central Nairobi...
Mbai's killing further undermines the shaky coalition between Kibaki's political forces and those of Luo leader and Public Works Minister Raila Odinga (AC Vol 44 No 11)...