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 Amolo Odinga, who died on 15 October 2025, aged 80, ran five times for the Kenyan presidency but didn’t win. Yet he became a statesman of enormous influence, whose political and humanitarian ...

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, ...

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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 ...