Political allies President Uhuru Kenyatta and erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga have to rethink their political strategy after the High Court in Nairobi threw out their plan to remake the constitution in line with their Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)...

Three years after the 'handshake' between President Kenyatta and Raila Odinga the two principals have invested too much political capital in it (AC Vol 62 No 1 Handshake to face poll test)...

However despite being personally close to erstwhile opposition leader Raila Odinga who gave him a particularly laudatory obituary Magufuli's relations with Kenyatta were often prickly particularly over the status of herders who graze cattle on either side of the Kenya/Tanzanian border and on work permits for Kenyans wishing to work and do business cross-border (AC Vol 58 No 23 Making policy on the hoof)...

Instead several embarrassing setbacks for the 'handshake' duo President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga have prompted concerns that the project could yet snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (AC Vol 62 No 1 Handshake to face poll test)...

Among the report's supporters were several surprising names including Senator James Orengo a close ally of former opposition leader and handshake partner Raila Odinga...

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga was admitted on Tuesday the third anniversary of his 'handshake' with President Uhuru Kenyatta that has reshaped the country's political alliances...

With the combined support of most of the Jubilee party of President Uhuru Kenyatta and almost all of the official opposition parties led by Raila Odinga's Orange Democrat Movement it is certain to be adopted...