Raila Odinga former opposition leader and now in a putative alliance with Ruto finds himself in an awkward position...
Vol 66 No 7 |
- KENYA
- WHO'S WHO
Following the protests he led the ODM faction opposing Raila Odinga's party accepting ministerial positions in President William Ruto's cabinet (AC Vol 65 No 16 Raila names his price)...
Vol 66 No 7 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Over the weekend of 29-30 March Kenyan statesman Raila Odinga now part of a unity government with President William Ruto was dispatched as an envoy to meet Machar and Kiir...
The great survivor of Kenyan politics Raila Odinga has an uncanny ability to turn every electoral defeat into a strategic victory...
Yet the launch of the People's Liberation Party (PLP) the new party led by Martha Karua – Raila Odinga's running mate in the 2022 presidential elections – brought together the great and the good of Kenya's opposition (Dispatches 16/5/22 Martha Karua and Rigathi Gachagua make the cut as running mates )...
During the 2022 campaign Ruto's team led by communication advisor Hussein Mohamed a former Citizen TV presenter known for softball interviews with ministers repeatedly accused the NMG and others of bias and giving more favourable coverage to his rival Raila Odinga...
After Raila Odinga accepted five ministerial seats in Ruto's cabinet last July his Orange Democratic Movement led in parliament by Junet Mohamed effectively became part of government...
Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf held off veteran Kenyan presidential candidate and dealmaker Raila Odinga to be elected as the next chair of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa on 15 February replacing Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat (AC Vol 66 No 4 Pan-Africanism is on the ballot)...
Kenya's Raila Odinga is a big-name candidate who lacks the energy and administrative skills needed to run the AU civil service...
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Mbadi is the most senior of the five ministers from Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement who joined the Ruto administration last July...
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He has given several speeches many in church and at his Nyeri home and held rallies with the likes of Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka and the National Rainbow Coalition-Kenya's Martha Karua both former running mates of Raila Odinga...
On a recent tour of Western Kenya Raila Odinga's stronghold Ruto declared with characteristic bravado that he would defeat his rivals ‘by early morning on voting day'...