Kenya’s former Prime Minister and veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80. Widely regarded as one of the country’s most influential political figures, Odinga shaped Kenya’s ...

The optimism of Kenya’s 2022 elections, once hailed for policy-driven campaigns, has collapsed into tribal politics reminiscent of the Moi era Rigathi Gachagua’s fallout with President William Ruto ...

Siaya Governor James Orengo has sparked a political storm in Kenya by openly criticising the power-sharing arrangement between President William Ruto and main opposition leader Raila Odinga, ...

Dramatic changes, reconciliations, and fallouts that would make a telenovela blush are what Kenyan politics are all about The landscape is changing again today as President William Ruto is publicly ...

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, a "towering statesman" over decades of upheaval, died at the age of 80 on Wednesday during a health visit to India -- a political earthquake that leaves the east ...

Keria Nkumbo, a dusty trading centre on the border of Meru and Tharaka Nithi, carries within its daily struggles the unspoken truth of Kenya’s politics: When poverty hardens into a way of life, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial presidential candidate whose populist campaigns rattled authorities and gave him an outsized influence on political life ...

Raila Amolo Odinga, whose death at 80 was announced on Wednesday, spent most of his adult life in politics, including eight years in prison as a pro-democracy campaigner -- but never achieved his goal ...

As the political scramble for Mt Kenya heats up, President William Ruto and his impeached deputy Rigathi Gachagua are laying out parallel political strategies to win the support of the populous, ...

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He was one of the most pivotal public figures in Kenya. He died this week after fighting against tribalism for decades. By Jeffrey Gettleman Jeffrey Gettleman was the Times’s East Africa bureau chief ...

Analysis of political settlements has emerged from the shadows of new institutionalism and moved to the epicentre of political economy analysis across Africa. This debate takes on the framework by ...