Raila Amolo Odinga

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...

There has been a deafening silence from presidential contenders such as Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka...

The previous week Moi had pledged to back Kibaki against opposition leader Raila Odinga and the Orange Democratic Movement in December's elections (AC Vol 48 No 17)...

Last week Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka left the ODM after weeks of tension with Raila Amolo Odinga its dominant figure...

Above all he is unpredictable and indefatigable: that is how an old associate sums up Raila Amolo Odinga...

After brief stints as a university lecturer in engineering and in the civil service Raila set out to overthrow Daniel arap Moi's government; his sympathetic biographer Babafemi Badejo ('Raila Odinga: An Enigma in Kenya Politics') tells of his commanding role in the abortive military coup of 1 August 1982 when over 100 people died in Nairobi alone...

The undoubted front-runner in the ODM presidential primaries is Raila Odinga seen as leader of the Luo people...

At the 2002 elections electors voted out the established Kenya African National Union (KANU) in favour of the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) a shaky alliance which fell apart as relations soured between its incompatible leaders President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga...