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    Snap back Kenya: What next for Raila after failed bid for AUC chairperson? By Sheriff Bojang Jnr. Posted on February 17, 2025

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    Snap back Kenya: What next for Raila after failed bid for AUC chairperson? By Sheriff Bojang Jnr. Posted on February 17, 2025
    Snap back Kenya: What next for Raila after failed bid for AUC chairperson? By Sheriff Bojang Jnr. Posted on February 17, 2025

     

    Snap back

    Kenya: What next for Raila after failed bid for AUC chairperson?

    By Sheriff Bojang Jnr

    Posted on February 17, 2025

    Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga in Nairobi in August 2024. (Simon Maina/AFP)
    Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga in Nairobi in August 2024. (Simon Maina/AFP)

    Kenya’s veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga is expected to return to national politics with various options to consider ahead of the 2027 elections.

    Kenya’s veteran opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga has lost his bid for the chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) to Djibouti’s foreign minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, in a closely contested vote in Addis Ababa.

    The newly elected chairperson for the Africa Union Commission Mahmoud Ali Youssouf after election results during the 38th AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 15 February 2025. (Amanuel Sileshi/AFP)

    making history

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    ETHIOPIA-AFRICA-AU-DIPLOMACY © African heads of state and other delegates, with notable absences of DRC President Félix Tshisekedi and DRC PM Judith Suminwa Tuluka, pose for a group photo during the 38th African Union (AU) Summit at AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa on 15 February 2025. (Marco Simoncelli/AFP)

    Strong words

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    Djibouti’s foreign affairs minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, 23 September 2023 (Chine Nouvelle/SIPA)

    CLOSE CALL

    Djibouti’s foreign minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf wins in seventh round after Kenya’s Raila Odinga appeared to lead in the first two roun 

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