Ruto and Odinga rail against [Kenya] LGBT court ruling
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| 03/02/2023 | Ferdinand Omondi
Kenya’s President William Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga have united in their criticism of last week’s Supreme Court ruling which allows the LGBT community to register lobby groups in Kenya. President Ruto has sworn that he will never allow gay marriage in Kenya, which he said "goes against the country’s cultures
and religious beliefs". It’s the latest and highest-profile attack on the judgement, which many have wrongly suggested gives the LGBT community freedom to get married in Kenya. Last Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the decision of Kenya’s NGO board to decline the registration of the National Gays...
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Kenya's Raila Odinga 'inaugurates' himself as president
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| Jan 30, 2018
Raila Odinga has declared himself to be the people's president" at a controversial "swearing-in" ceremony in the capital. Thousands
of his supporters attended the event, despite a government warning that it amounted to treason. The authorities shut down TV stations to prevent live coverage of the event. President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in for a second term last November. He won an election re-run in October, but Mr Odinga boycotted it. Elections were first held in August but the courts ordered a re-run, saying Mr Kenyatta's victory was marred by irregularities.
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NASA [Kenya] to swear in Raila Odinga if UhuRuto are declared winners
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zipo.co.ke ^
| October 29, 2017 | By Peninah Maua -
The politicians on Saturday, October 28, said if the commission dares to declare Uhuru as President-elect, they will go ahead and swear in their party leader Raila Odinga as President. Siaya Senator James Orengo (also lawyer and Nasa strategist) and former Machakos Senator Johson Muthama, said they do not recognize Uhuru Kenyatta
as the President of Kenya. Speaking in Mavoko, Machakos County, the politicians who were flanked with their Nasa colleagues reiterated that Raila remains the people’s president.
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Vote ruling a rare win for Kenyan opposition veteran Odinga
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| September 1, 2017 | by Katharine Houreld
NAIROBI - For Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, Friday’s Supreme Court ruling nullifying last month’s presidential election is a rare win in a life spent at the losing end of his country’s infamously harsh politics. The
72-year-old spent years as a political prisoner and has mounted four failed attempts to win the top job. August’s elections, that he lost to President Uhuru Kenyatta, were widely expected to be his last shot. Now Odinga has another chance, though he still faces an uphill climb - Kenyatta’s party swept the legislature and local elections, and the now-voided results put him 1.4 million...
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Is Obama mirroring 'cousin' Odinga, provoking violence after a so-called "rigged" election?
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Multiple sources (links provided) | Multiple authors
January 8, 2008 Odinga says Obama is his cousin Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga and US presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama Mr Obama is descended from the same Luo tribe as Mr Odinga [at least according to Odinga] Odinga on Obama: Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is a cousin
of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Mr Odinga told the BBC's The World Today that Senator Obama's father was his maternal uncle. http://news.bbc.co.uk https://web.archive.org/web/200803162251 ________________________________________ From the website Atlas Shrugs, June 17, 2008: Odinga and Obama are Luo. Odinga and his American counterpart and strategist Obama both campaigned...
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