Co-ordinated by Azimio La Umoja leader Raila Odinga Kenyans are being urged to bang kitchen pots and pans at midday in protest at food prices...
But expectations of an early deal are low and creating the opposition leader position would require a constitutional amendment (AC Vol 64 No 10 What does Raila Odinga want...
RUTO GAMBLES ON AUSTERITY On the campaign trail last year William Ruto refused to join his rival Raila Odinga in calling for debt restructuring...
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Opposition leader Raila Odinga's protests against the Ruto government's economic management and the cost of living crisis have not forced concessions from the President they show the pain felt by Kenyans particularly the lower middle class voters who shifted to Ruto's camp in last August's elections...
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Few expected William Ruto to devote much time to foreign policy when he claimed the presidency after narrowly defeating Raila Odinga in last August's elections...
Opposition leader Raila Odinga's Azimio la Umoja coalition has described it as a 'punitive tax regime that seeks to impoverish Kenyans'...
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There is little appetite among MPs to maintain the politics of the pre-election 'handshake' between Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga (Dispatches 10/1/23 How the opposition is trying to pick up the pieces)...
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After weeks of insisting that there would be no compromise and no 'handshake'-style deal with veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga President William Ruto followed his two immediate predecessors and backed down...
At the Chatham House think-tank in London last March Ruto did not agree with Raila Odinga's campaign promise to renegotiate the country's external debts (Dispatches 18/4/23 Dialling for dollars)...
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Ruto's social media machine has swung into action blaming the leaks on opposition leader Raila Odinga...
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After winning a commitment by President William Ruto to debate reform of the electoral commission in parliament opposition leader Raila Odinga is demanding that the talks should include parties from outside parliament and the agenda should include an audit of August 2022 elections...
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President William Ruto continues to win over supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga in his traditional strongholds in Nyanza (AC Vol 64 No 6 The one-party state bounces back)...
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