The only foreign dignitaries at Tshisekedi's inauguration after the election that many judged to have been won by Fayulu were Kenyatta and his ally Raila Odinga (AC Vol 60 No 3 A day of portents)...
Claims from defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga's team that the IEBC colluded with Ruto's camp to fix the election have re-emerged in recent weeks...
The composition and future direction of the IEBC is set to be a key battle between Ruto and the opposition forces led by Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka with the latter demanding an overhaul of the institution...
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His opponent Raila Odinga had pledged he would open discussions with creditors about stretching out some of the repayment periods to allow the new government more budgetary flexibility...
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Reinforcing this policy Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji last week dramatically announced that his office had prepared charges against senior figures in the security sector implicated in post-election atrocities in Raila Odinga's bastion of Nyanza in 2017...
Vol 63 No 21 |
- KENYA
- UGANDA
That managed to upset both Kenya's erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga and the eventual election winner William Ruto who has been assiduously cultivating Museveni for the past five years...
That fired up Ruto's resentment against Kenyatta but also gave him the space to build up his United Democratic Alliance (UDA) and launch his own campaign against Kenyatta's preferred successor Raila Odinga...
This may appease voters in the Lower Eastern Ukambani region which stuck by Kalonzo Musyoka Wiper party leader and key ally of Raila Odinga in the August elections...
Former Meru Senator Mithika Linturi replaces his county mate Peter Munya who had supported Raila Odinga at Agriculture...
After the Supreme Court confirmed his narrow defeat in the 9 August polls an exhausted Raila Odinga decamped for a family holiday in Zanzibar last month to 'reflect and heal'...
This coincided with the split that opened up between President Kenyatta and Ruto as Kenyatta formed his alliance with erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga...
That was part of the fallout from the Supreme Court's decision to label as 'illegal and unconstitutional' the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) to amend the constitution a pet project of Kenyatta's and his erstwhile ally Raila Odinga...
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MPs affiliated to defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga and the Azimio coalition tried to block Wetangula's candidacy by citing allegations of corruption during his tenure as foreign minister and a procedural claim that he had not lawfully resigned as Bungoma Senator...
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Ruto will be sworn in as president on 13 September after the Supreme Court threw out the petitions filed by Raila Odinga and others demanding the nullification of the 9 August presidential elections...