Raila Amolo Odinga

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)...

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)...

In late 2007 Kenyatta led the Kenya African National Union and the parliamentary opposition but he supported the then President Mwai Kibaki against challenger Raila Amolo Odinga in the December general elections...

CORD and its leader former Prime Minister Raila Odinga could gain considerable Kalenjin support after a split between Jubilee's two wings...

The Coalition for Reform and Democracy leader Raila Odinga claimed on 18 November that the Jubilee Coalition in conjunction with IEBC officials had arranged for 'extra ballot papers' printed by S&O to be smuggled into Kenya and used in 'Jubilee areas' to tip the vote in the Alliance's favour in March 2013...