Sacked and publicly humiliated by Moi during the sunset of his reign in 2002 he had walked out of the Kenya African National Union and joined Raila Odinga in the Liberal Democratic Party...
His removal to the less conspicuous Education Ministry was therefore not unexpected and for weeks there have been rumours that other parties were courting him including Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement...
A pragmatist to the very end Karume was said to have lately become a supporter of Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s quest for the presidency...
He has been seen as having the best chance against the favourite for the presidency Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga a consummate politician and populist (and like his father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga champion of the Luo people) spoke of an end to tribalism...
Prime Minister Raila Odinga who has tried to strengthen his image as an even-handed statesman rather than a reckless populist will revert to populist mode in an attempt to reconnect with the masses...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 |
- CHINA
- EAST AFRICA
On 16 August hundreds of Kenyan retailers in Nairobi shut up shop and marched to Prime Minister Raila Odinga's office...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
Foreign and finance ministers from more than 50 African countries attended but only a handful of heads of state and government were present notably South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 |
- SOUTH KOREA
On a 8-13 July trip to East Africa Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik met Kenyan Premier Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki...
With former KANU Secretary General Raila Odinga Musyoka joined the Orange Democratic Movement and prepared to defeat Kibaki in the 2007 general elections but the two were unable to maintain a united front...