POLITICS:
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 29 (IPS) - A power-sharing agreement between the opposition Orange Democratic Movement and the Party of National Unity in Kenya has failed at healing ethnic divisions in the one-time politically-troubled...
Kenya holds a huge party to celebrate its best Olympic medal haul in 20 years, to end as Africa's most successful...
In an August 18 editorial,
Investor's Business Daily
wrote that after Kenyan politician Raila Odinga lost his country's
presidential election in late 2007, "angry Odinga supporters crying fraud
sparked riots that resulted in some 1,500 deaths. Amid...
So-called professionals in the politically correct news media have tried hard to tell us what the relevant facts are about Barack Obama. My questions to Obama: Was your surrogate father Frank Marshall Davis a communist? Why would anyone want to...
In August 2006, Mr. Obama visited Kenya and spoke in support of Mr. Odinga's candidacy at rallies in Nairobi. The Web site Atlas Shrugs has even posted a photograph of the two men side by side. More recently, Mr. Odinga says that Mr....
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya is suffering an energy crisis and desperately needs to boost "dismal" private investment in the sector, the east African country's prime minister warned on Wednesday.
Like many nations on the world's poorest continent,...
Background
Raila Amolo Odinga (born January 7, 1945) is Kenyan politician, currently serving as the Prime Minister of Kenya with president Mwai Kibaki in a coalition government. He has served as a Member of Parliament for Langata since 1992, was Minister of Energy from 2001 to 2002, and was Minister of Roads, Public Works and Housing from 2003 to 2005. He was the main opposition candidate in the disputed 2007 presidential election. Following a post-electoral crisis that resulted in the deaths of 1,500 people and the displacement of 600,000 more, Odinga took office as Prime Minister, at the head of a national unity government, in April 2008.
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