Kenya: 'Odinga's Assassination Claim'

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Kenya: 'Odinga's Assassination Claim'

[Nairobi News] Winnie Odinga says her father, opposition leader Raila Odinga, feared he would be assassinated during his mock swearing-in in January of 2018.

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