Kenya's Raila Odinga is a big-name candidate who lacks the energy and administrative skills needed to run the AU civil service...
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Mbadi is the most senior of the five ministers from Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement who joined the Ruto administration last July...
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He has given several speeches many in church and at his Nyeri home and held rallies with the likes of Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka and the National Rainbow Coalition-Kenya's Martha Karua both former running mates of Raila Odinga...
On a recent tour of Western Kenya Raila Odinga's stronghold Ruto declared with characteristic bravado that he would defeat his rivals ‘by early morning on voting day'...
Museveni was hosted by Ruto and Raila Odinga at a Luo community cultural event over Christmas and has been a prominent supporter of Odinga's bid to become chair of the African Union Commission in February...
But he advised former Presidents Mwai Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
Vol 66 No 1 |
- AFRICA IN 2025
Even Ruto's support for veteran oppositionist Raila Odinga to win the chair of the AU Commission owes something to his local priorities...
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That's partly why Ruto wants to formalise his unofficial unity government with ex-opponent Raila Odinga winning his endorsement and that of the ODM party ahead of 2027 (AC Vol 65 No 16 Raila names his price)...
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Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga whose party has held five government ministries since the July reshuffle that was driven by the protests described the abductions as ‘strange and primitive' in his Christmas message (AC Vol 65 No 16 Raila names his price)...
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Vol 66 No 1 |
- KENYA
- UGANDA
Karua whose NARC-Kenya party formally withdrew its membership of Raila Odinga's Azimio la Umoja coalition in November is one of few senior Kenyan politicians to have been vocal about the recent spike in abductions of both locals and foreign nationals in Kenya (AC Vol 65 No 23 Facing calls for reform the state hits back &Vol 65 No 25 New alliances on shaky ground)...
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Even by the standards of Kenyan politics where the bitterest political enemies in one election can become close allies at the next the five members of Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) who became ministers in July in the wake of the Generation Z protests have embraced government with alacrity (AC Vol 65 No 16 Raila names his price)...