Nairobi, Kenya
Reuters
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Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has died on the age of 80, a supply in Odinga’s workplace instructed Reuters on Wednesday, with out giving additional particulars.
Indian newspaper Mathrubhumi earlier reported that Odinga, who was present process therapy within the southern Indian metropolis of Kochi, suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday and was rushed to hospital the place he was pronounced lifeless.
As opposition chief, Odinga lost all five of his presidential campaigns, with two of the votes resulting in chaotic bouts of bloodletting and recrimination a decade aside.
His work as a democracy activist over time helped seal two of the nation’s most vital reforms: multiparty democracy in 1991 and a brand new structure in 2010.
He led the protests after the disputed 2007 election that plunged the nation into its most severe episode of political violence since independence. About 1,300 folks had been killed and a whole lot of hundreds displaced from their houses within the battles.