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)...
His deputy in Los Angeles will be Raila Odinga's sister Akinyi Walkowa Odinga...
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Vol 65 No 7 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
That tension was exploited by Kenyan President William Ruto during the 2022 presidential election after his opponent Raila Odinga proposed a ban on 'mitumba'...
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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...
' 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...
Vol 65 No 5 |
- AFRICAN UNION
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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The announcement on the eve of the 17-18 February African Union summit by Kenya's veteran opposition leader Raila Amolo Odinga that he wants to take over from Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat as chair of the AU Commission next year has prompted a rare outbreak of consensus among politicians in Nairobi...
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And in 2021 and 2022 it struck down the ambitious constitutional reform known as the Building Bridges Initiative that was designed by former President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga as part of the latter's failed bid for the presidency (AC Vol 62 No 17 The bridge collapses)...
Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga can still get his supporters onto the streets but at 78 shows little enthusiasm for another election campaign...
Wage gapMaking a presentation before a bipartisan committee set up by President Ruto and opposition Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga to discuss governance and political reforms in the wake of last year's disputed presidential elections the audit chief pointed to her own wages which she said appear in the Treasury's official records as being three times higher than the sum she actually receives...
