Funeral Is Held for Raila Odinga, a Pillar of Kenya’s Democracy
Thousands paid their respects at a stadium in Nairobi. President William Ruto said the spirit of Mr. Odinga, who died at 80, “lives within every Kenyan and every African.”
Thousands paid their respects at a stadium in Nairobi. President William Ruto said the spirit of Mr. Odinga, who died at 80, “lives within every Kenyan and every African.”
The deadly tumult was the latest example of officers’ using force to quell demonstrations in the country.
A pivotal political leader who helped usher in multiparty democracy, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency five times.
A Kenyan lawmaker was gunned down on a busy Nairobi street by a motorcycle-riding assassin on Wednesday evening, in what the police described as a “targeted and premeditated” attack. The…