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...
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- 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...
For their partisan role in Raila Odinga's presidential campaign if not for the ordinary politics of transition most of these Kenyatta-era apparatchiks will be cast into the cold (AC Vol 63 No 17 Ruto takes his revenge)...
Ruto's pre-election claim that political accommodations compromise democracy – a charge he used to dismiss Raila Odinga's Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition – was quickly forgotten as he raced to win over the independent MPs who hold the balance of power in the National Assembly...
Consolation prizes for Raila Presidential contender Raila Odinga will have breathed a sigh of relief after his Orange Democratic Movement won both of the delayed governor elections in Mombasa and Kakamega results which check the momentum of President-elect William Ruto...
United States Senator Chris Coons was dispatched to Nairobi for meetings with Ruto his opposition rival Raila Odinga and outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta following the official announcement of the 9 August election results but Borrell's is the first major diplomatic visit since Ruto's victory was confirmed by the Supreme Court on 5 September...