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Raila Amolo Odinga

Date of Birth: 2 January 1945
Place of Birth: Maseno, Kisumo District, Nyanza Province


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State House has a problem with Nairobi's political boss

Winning on Ruto's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) ticket in August 2022 Sakaja bucked the trend in Nairobi which backed Raila Odinga in the presidential contest and Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in the capital's parliamentary seats (AC Vol 63 No 17 Ruto takes his revenge)...

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Quid pro quo diplomacy

On 27 April Nairobi's State House reported that President Mnangagwa had confirmed Zimbabwe's support for Raila Odinga's candidacy for the chair of the African Union Commission next February...

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After the general crashes, a reshuffle

Following Ruto's narrow and controversial win over Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga Ogolla a Luo like Odinga was marked out as one of the securocrats promoted by Ruto's predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta who would quickly be shown the door (AC Vol 63 No 18 Kenyatta's securocrats cast into the cold)...


The battle for Odinga's ODM

With Raila Odinga's path towards the African Union chair's job looking ever more clear the race to succeed him as the voice of Kenya's opposition is hotting up (Dispatches 21/2/24 Raila Odinga's bid for AU chair wins consensus in Nairobi)...


Re-opening the commission's wounds

Since the poll narrowly won by William Ruto opposition leader Raila Odinga's allies have been demanding that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) servers be opened up for an audit...


It's the politics that counts

' The opposition led by Raila Odinga has spent much of its time since Ruto's election in August 2022 exploiting the hardship at the grassroots right up to the more comfortable middle class...

Rumours that Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete would stand have ebbed (Dispatches 21/2/24 Raila Odinga's bid for AU chair wins consensus in Nairobi)...

Last year Gachagua promised to make it impossible for Raila Odinga even to meet the President...


Veterans seek a last hurrah in Addis

The race to succeed Moussa Faki Mahamat as chair of the African Union Commission (AUC) in February 2025 already has two contenders Tanzania's former president Jakaya Kikwete and Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga...

He formally declared his interest in the AUC job ahead of the African Union summit in February at a press conference alongside his friend Olusegun Obasanjo Nigeria's former president and has quickly secured the support of Kenya's political class (Dispatches 21/2/24 Raila Odinga's bid for AU chair wins consensus in Nairobi)...

The rivals for Raila's crown Raila Odinga's decision to swap domestic politics for the African Union has prompted a scramble for his mantle as Kenya's de facto opposition leader...

That is how Musyoka and his allies who see his candidacy as Ruto's main opponent in 2027 as a certainty view the situation (AC Vol 64 No 10 What does Raila Odinga want...


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