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Raila Amolo Odinga

Date of Birth: 2 January 1945
Place of Birth: Maseno, Kisumo District, Nyanza Province


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Fading Rainbow

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...


Peace from above

The fundamental schism is between the National Alliance for Kenya led by Kibaki and Liberal Democratic Party led by Public Works Minister Raila Odinga...


One year under the Rainbow

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...


Murder most foul, again

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)...


Facing Mount Kenya

Raila Odinga is trying to rally members of the ruling coalition disgruntled with the Mount Kenya mafia...

Under the plan the premiership together with the executive powers he demands would be offered to Raila Odinga...


NARCotic

The main rivalry in the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC) pits a sub-group led by the shadowy 'Mount Kenya Mafia' (comprising some Kikuyu Meru Embu and Kamba from all parties) against a 'Western Alliance' that backs Raila Odinga and is based on Luo and Luhya parliamentarians plus some members of ex-President Daniel arap Moi's ousted Kenya African National Union (KANU)...

Ngilu; the Liberal Democratic Party is led by Raila Odinga Joseph Kamotho and Arap Moi's old Vice-President George Saitoti...


Victory is not enough

With his recent return to health the ruling coalition between his National Alliance for Kenya (NAK) and Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party is in the sick bay...


On the mend

The absence of the President and his deputy cast the spotlight on the second-tier leadership the political management of Public Works Minister Raila Odinga and economic management of Finance Minister David Mwiraria as two issues are set to dominate the government's first year: the promise of a new constitution within six months and the re-establishment of good financial relations with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund...

Their concerns are all the greater when former opposition firebrand-turned-Kenya African National Union Minister and now NARC Minister Raila Odinga is targeting the prime ministerial job...


The Unbwogables

For Kibaki Wamalwa is an important foil to Public Works Minister Raila Odinga widely seen as the most ambitious man in the government...


At the end of the Rainbow

At a huge rally in Nairobi's Uhuru Park scheduled to coincide with the KANU Kasarani show an estimated 50 000 people cheered the fresh KANU defectors to the opposition ­ Saitoti Kamotho Energy Minister Raila Amolo Odinga ex-cabinet ministers Kalonzo Musyoka William Ntimana and Awiti Adhu all of them KANU Rainbow dissidents...

On 21 October at the Nairobi Hilton Hotel a former Moi loyalist Moody Awori of NARC announced the lineup for the top jobs under a Kibaki presidency ­ Raila Odinga as the aspiring prime minister; Kijana Wamalwa for first vice-president; Musyoka for second vice-president; Kipruto Kirwa and Charity Ngilu for deputy prime ministers...


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