The contest will again pit President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Alliance Party against Raila Amolo Odinga's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD)...
CORD leader Raila Odinga has threatened to boycott the elections unless the IEBC is reformed: many assume that would include replacing the Chairperson...
Ethnic politics colour poll body row It is hard now to believe the joy with which the then Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) greeted the appointment of Ahmed Issack Hassan as Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Chairperson in November 2011...
Pressure on the government is also mounting from the opposition Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga to divulge the whereabouts of Kenya's Eurobond funds...
Meanwhile Raila Odinga head of the opposition Coalition for Reform and Democracy whose Luo ethnic group has been among those most aggrieved by the carve-up of Kenya's economic wealth since independence gave the closing speech and received a standing ovation...
In February 2012 the ICC did not confirm charges against Hussein Ali Kenya's police chief or Henry Kosgey a senior figure in Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...
Two bye-elections on 7 March were make-or-break events for two big political leaders: Raila Amolo Odinga of the opposition Coalition for Reform and Democracy and Deputy President William Samoei arap Ruto of the Jubilee Alliance Party...
President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Alliance will again fight Raila Amolo Odinga's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord)...
Such economic jitters combined with many job losses in the tourism and transport businesses have prompted Raila Amolo Odinga's CORD to go on the political offensive after months of confusion and inaction (AC Vol 56 No 17 The opposition fall out)...
These are Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM); Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka of the Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya (WDM-K); Moses Simiyu Wetangula of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya (Ford-K); and Martha Wangari Karua of the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC)...
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An opinion poll which followed his March speech and came during the Islamist militant attack on students at Garissa University College which began on 2 April and over which his government has been strongly criticised still had him at 49% 20 percentage points clear of his nearest rival Raila Odinga head of the opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (AC Vol 56 No 8 Garissa security shambles)...
