Military officers escort the casket bearing the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to the graveside at his father’s home Kang’o ka Jaramogu in Bondo, on October 19, 2025. [PCS]
Sometime in 1991, when Raila Odinga was forced into exile at the height of the struggle for multiparty democracy in Kenya, he found an unlikely sanctuary in the quiet, snow-covered suburbs of Norway.
So intense was the political turbulence then that when the Norwegian Embassy waded in following a dispute over the arrest of a political activist, a diplomatic spat ensued.
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