All over the Rift Valley there is war between the mainly Kikuyu supporters of President Mwai Kibaki and the Kalenjin who voted overwhelmingly for Raila Odinga...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 49 No 1 | 
            - EAST AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     The confrontation between rival presidential candidates Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga  against a backdrop of widespread electoral fraud and communal violence claiming over 500 lives  sends the worst possible signals about accountability and stability in East Africa and beyond...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Without serious efforts now to resolve the impasse between Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity and Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement  there are just a few steps to a total paralysis of government  the declaration of a state of emergency and rule by decree...
 Raila Odinga’s ODM  with 99 elected seats (and six nominated seats)  will be the biggest party and ODM members are determined to sit on the government benches because of their insistence that Kibaki and his PNU (with 43 elected seats) did not win the presidential election...
 The easiest target will be the ODM-Kenya party  which was formed by failed presidential contender Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka following his falling-out with Raila Odinga last year...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 1 (AAC) No 11 | 
            - KENYA
 - JAPAN
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Ito met Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and reiterated that Tokyo would meet all its scheduled commitments: a doubling of official Japanese aid (not including debt cancellation) to Africa over the next five years; doubling investment from Japanese companies; and ensuring greater transparency and international competitive bidding on all aid contracts...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 1 (AAC) No 3 | 
            - KENYA
 - ASIA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	      The Indian community's broad support for the incumbent Kibaki rather than his rival Raila Odinga might have triggered violence against their businesses...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    With general elections coming up on 27 December  the opinion polls give a slim lead to Raila Amolo Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...
 Raila Odinga's ODM controls six of  the eight provinces  riding on widespread disaffection from Mwai Kibaki's government  especially among the young and the poor  who feel little benefit from his economic growth policies...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Raila Odinga's political organisation is much better coordinated and more focused than Mwai Kibaki's divided house...
 The Raila Odinga Campaign Secretariat: Dr...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Judicial appointments could be crucial if next month's result is close; a narrow win for Kibaki would probably be challenged in court by his opponent  Raila Odinga  who would allege that the result was fixed...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	        Kibaki's main rival  Raila Odinga  has hired former United States President Bill Clinton's political spinmeister Dick Morris and is promising a new constitution under which the president will share power with a prime minister...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     For the first time  opposition leader Raila Odinga beat Kibaki in a national opinion poll  published by the Steadman Group on 29 September...