FILE - Presidential candidate Raila Odinga arrives to attend Sunday mass in St. Francis church in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File) NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Raila Odinga, a ...

Kenyan security forces fired in the air and lobbed tear gas to disperse thousands of mourners on Thursday at a stadium where the deceased opposition leader, Raila Odinga’s body was on view. Odinga, a ...

Raila Odinga was one of Kenya's most influential and enduring political figures despite five unsuccessful presidential bids. For years, the firebrand politician emerged as a staunch campaigner and ...

Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80, family sources have told the BBC. Odinga died on Wednesday while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in India. He collapsed ...

Mourners stand on a grounded aeroplane and elephant sculptures, after the arrival of the body of former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who had been receiving medical treatment in India when he ...

Kenya has a reputation of tribalism as the main factor that politics is mainly involved in. The political punditocracy analyses politics with respect to “communities” and their voting patterns. The ...

The death of Raila Odinga on 15 October has left a void not just in Kenya’s opposition politics but in the country’s collective political memory. For more than four decades, Raila embodied defiance, ...

Once described as the only man in former president Mwai Kibaki’s government, Martha Karua has spent much of her political life confronting the language of power as much as power itself. In her memoir ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — After last-minute chaos that could foreshadow a court challenge, Kenya’s electoral commission chairman on Monday declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close ...

Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, a key figure in African politics, has died of a heart attack in India, the Devamatha Hospital in India’s Kerala State confirmed on October 15, 2025. He was ...