Word: odinga
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...sure, the idea of overthrowing Mugabe has growing support. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. President George Bush have all called for Mugabe to step down. Nobel laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga are among those who have gone even further, advocating international military intervention to overthrow Mugabe. They argue that the U.N. has a responsibility to take action under the Responsibility to Protect, an open-ended justification for humanitarian intervention that the U.N. adopted in 2005. That's because saving Zimbabwe from...
Corsi claims that Obama has strong ties to Odinga, whom the author says fomented Kenya's postelection violence last January in a bid to secure the presidency after the results declared incumbent President Mwai Kibaki the winner. In fact, independent observers disputed Kibaki's victory, and a commission looking into the vote recently determined that Kenya would never know if Odinga or Kibaki truly won. In his writings, Corsi has sought to link the Luos - the tribe of Odinga, as well as Obama's ancestors - with Muslims and to pit both of them against Kikuyus, the tribe of Kibaki...
...whole world became very concerned about the violence in Kenya and wanted a negotiated settlement, because they realized the outcome was not what Kenyans voted for," says Odinga adviser Salim Lone, commenting on Corsi's alleged Obama-Odinga-Islamist nexus. "Raila became Prime Minister because of the view that the unrest would continue. Islam had nothing to do with it, and in any event, the violence in Muslim areas was minimal as compared to the others. It has absolutely no basis in fact...
Corsi also claims that Obama was in close contact with Odinga, advising the Kenyan politician on strategy after the results were announced. Lone claims he was there the one time Obama called Odinga, and says it wasn't to talk campaign strategy but rather to demand that the violence end and that Odinga and Kibaki come to a peaceful solution to the crisis...
...underestimated the broad Kenyan support for Obama, whose father was a Kenyan and who has several half-siblings here. While there is animosity between Luos and Kikuyus - and the tribes were responsible for much of the postelection violence - Obama is immensely popular across ethnic lines in Kenya. Ever since Odinga became Prime Minister in a power-sharing agreement with Kibaki, his own approval ratings have soared...