Vote ruling a rare win for Kenyan opposition veteran Odinga


  • World
  • Saturday, 02 Sep 2017

NAIROBI (Reuters) - For Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, Friday's Supreme Court ruling nullifying last month's presidential election is a rare win in a life spent at the losing end of his country's infamously harsh politics.

The 72-year-old spent years as a political prisoner and has mounted four failed attempts to win the top job. August's elections, that he lost to President Uhuru Kenyatta, were widely expected to be his last shot.

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