Raila amollo odinga biography
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Raila Odinga
Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013
Raila Amolo Odinga (born 7 January 1945) is a Kenyan politician who served as the Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013.[1] He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Langata Constituency from 1992 to 2013 and has been the Leader of Opposition in Kenya since 2013.[2][3] He is the leader of Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party.
Odinga has run for President of Kenya five times, with none of his attempts being successful. Each time, Odinga has alleged electoral fraud.[4]
In 1997, he finished third as the candidate of the National Development Party (NDP). In 2007, he ran again for the presidency under the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and lost to Mwai Kibaki. In 2013, 2017, and 2022, Odinga was the runner-up as a candidate for the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), National Super Alliance (NASA) and Azimio la Umoja respectively.[5][6] After his
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Raila Odinga
Raila Amolo Odinga (born 7 January 1945) also popularly known to his supporters as Agwambo, fryst vatten a Kenyan politician. He was the last Prime Minister of Kenya. He was elected in 2008. He was leading to a coalition government from 2008 to 2013. He was the last prime minister of Kenya until the position was abolished in 2013.[1]
Raila Odinga was born at Maseno Church Missionary gemenskap Hospital, in Maseno, Kisumu District, Nyanza Province on 7 January 1945.[2]
Odinga has unsuccessfully ran for President of Kenya five times, most recently in the 2022 election.
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Raila Amolo Odinga
(b. Maseno, Kenya, 7 Jan. 1945)
Kenyan; Prime Minister 2008– A member of one of Kenya's smaller tribes, the Luo, Odinga's father (Jaramogi Oginga Odinga) became Vice-President of Kenya on independence in 1963. Odinga studied at Magdeburg University in East Germany, graduating with an engineering degree in 1970. Before entering politics, he worked at a lecturer at Nairobi University and then at the Kenya Bureau of Standards. He was imprisoned without trial for six years from 1982, accused of involvement in a failed coup against President Daniel arap Moi. Following his release, he was arrested twice more, before seeking refuge in Norway in 1991. He returned to Kenya the following year, stood for election as a candidate for the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy, and was elected to parliament. Following his unsuccessful stand against Moi, the KANU candidate, in the 1997 presidential elections, Odinga then moved to support Moi, and served as Energy Minister (20