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Kenya: Will the Kibaki-Odinga deal hold?
Mar 5 2008, Balbhadra Rana

Kenya seems to have been saved from the brink of civil war. The two main parties PNU and ODM have decided to merge. Kibaki will remain president and Raila Odinga will sit on the newly created prime ministerial chair. In short the two main parties (or.

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