Judges sat for five consecutive days at the Appeal Court to review the 14 May High Court ruling that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) at the centre of the alliance between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga would breach the constitution (AC Vol 62 No 11 Picking up the pieces)...

It doubles as a constitutional overhaul that expands government and a political deal to carve up power between President Kenyatta and 'handshake' partner Raila Odinga (AC Vol 59 No 6 Raila beats rivals to a new deal)...

For loyalists of Raila Odinga his electoral negotiations with President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Jubilee party are the logical conclusion of their celebrated handshake deal which ended hostilities after the contested results of the 2017 election...

Political allies President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga have to rethink their political strategy after the High Court in Nairobi threw out their plan to remake the constitution in line with their Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)...

Three years after the 'handshake' between President Kenyatta and Raila Odinga the two principals have invested too much political capital in it (AC Vol 62 No 1 Handshake to face poll test)...

However despite being personally close to erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga who gave him a particularly laudatory obituary Magufuli's relations with Kenyatta were often prickly particularly over the status of herders who graze cattle on either side of the Kenya/Tanzanian border and on work permits for Kenyans wishing to work and do business cross-border (AC Vol 58 No 23 Making policy on the hoof)...

Instead several embarrassing setbacks for the 'handshake' duo President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga have prompted concerns that the project could yet snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (AC Vol 62 No 1 Handshake to face poll test)...

Among the report's supporters were several surprising names including Senator James Orengo a close ally of former opposition leader and handshake partner Raila Odinga...