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...

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...

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...

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...