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In April 1965, the rumour of a potential Kenyan coup was brought to British attention. This was a moment of raised tensions in the government of President Jomo Kenyatta, who secretly asked the British government for a military commitment to support his government if a coup was attempted by Kenyan Vice President Oginga Odinga. The British military responded by making an extensive military plan to intervene, code-named Operation Binnacle. They sent ships to Mombasa and put troops on alert. This article assesses these plans as a case study of the logic, and limits, of British military interventionism in the years after decolonization. It highlights the importance of studying plans, even when not carried out, and of taking seriously the attitudes and fears of contemporaries. Although a coup was highly unlikely, British reactions are revealing of their concerns about independent Kenya, including possible Soviet involvement. Operation Binnacle was a serious British response to the threat, as they saw it, which a coup would cause to their interests. These were extensive enough that the British government was prepared to intervene militarily, during a brief moment when military interventionism in Africa was still seriously considered as a possible policy choice.

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenya's senior opposition leader, died on Jan 20, 1994 at the age of 82. Odinga was a formidable critic of independent Kenya's government.

Kenneth Matiba, Mwai Kibaki and Oginga Odinga urged Kenyans to remain peaceful but pledged to work together to force a new vote and prevent [Moi] from remaining in office \"as the result of these fraudulent elections.\" Yesterday, Kenya Television Network said Moi had 1,796,233 votes and Matiba, a businessman, 1,228,870. That gave Moi an almost unsurmountable lead with only 19 of 188 parliamentary districts still uncounted. Kibaki and Odinga, both former vice presidents, had fewer than 1 million votes each. Moi's governing Kenya African National Union party was close to a majority in the 188-seat National Assembly. The party won at least 85 seats; parties backing Matiba and Odinga each had 25 and Kibaki supporters 19.

Last year, [Gitobu Imanyara], 38, was detained without charge for 20 days in a wave of arrests that netted Kenya's most vocal proponents of political change, including two former Cabinet ministers and the son of Kenya's first vice president, Oginga Odinga.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuter) - Gessegesse Fereja, a former district governor in central Ethiopia admitted on television killing 22 suspected opponents of ousted Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in bloody purges of the 1970s. The government of President Meles Zenawi, whose guerrilla army overthrew Mengistu in May, has previously used state media to highlight the horrors of the previous regime. NICOSIA (AP) - A deputy Iraqi foreign minister arrived in Iran for talks yesterday, breaking a freeze in relations between the neighboring Persian Gulf countries since the end of the gulf war. The official Islamic Republic News Agency said the topics to be discussed by Saad Faisal likely include Iranian PoWs held since the Iran-Iraq war and the planes Iraq sent to Iran during the gulf war that Iran shows no signs of returning.

This chapter takes a look at human territoriality within Africa—who claims to belong where in equatorial Africa, for example, depends upon who can trace relationships to whom. It looks at Luo, for instance, wherein it seems that until recent generations, the people of Luo did not particularly value pieces of land, or ancestral traces of them. Instead they treated these in a rather matter-of-fact and utilitarian way. Today, some Luo are now convinced that their people are permanently based in the Nyanza or lake basin, justified by the myth of Mumbo. In 1932, a Luo argued against some land alienations before the Kenya Land Commission. In a sense, land tenure issues played a major part in the participation of Luo in the drive toward independence, through their leaders such as Oginga Odinga and Tom Mboya. Thus this chapter explores the issues and arguments that Luo has undergone for territorial claims.

He suggested that Sir [Michael Blundell] be assigned the job of assessing the possibility of working with [Jomo Kenyatta]. Blundell was immediately dispatched to Lowdar [northwestern Kenya] where Kenyatta was held. After a couple of secret meetings and where Blundell reported \"positive progress\", Kenyatta was re-located to, in the words of Blundell, a decent home in Mararal [in Samburu, northern Kenya] \"where he could be with his family, have a library and once in a while take a glass of his favourite wine\". In a secret memo to the colonial secretary, governor [Malcolm MacDonald] talked of \"great success by Blundell\" and recommended that Kenyatta be \"set free the soonest possible so that he could take his rightful place as leader of the new Kenya\". He noted that an earlier assertion by his predecessor, governor Patrick Rension, that Kenyatta was a \"leader unto death and darkness\" was based on \"failure to talk to Kenyatta and gossip by a few paranoid white settlers\".

If convicted, the two men, Tieno Mak'onyango and Raila Odinga, face possible death sentences. No dates have been set for their trials.

Referring to the merger of Kenya African Democratic Union and KANU in the 1964, Mr [Njoroge Mungai] said when Mr Oginga Odinga spearheaded the merger, the smaller party dissolved itself and joined KANU without conditions - implying that it was improper for NDP to give conditions for its merger with KANU. The theme was taken up by other KANU stalwarts with powerman Nicholas Biwott and KANU's organizing secretary, Kalonzo Musyoka, arguing that [KANU] had done its best to accommodate NDP by appointing its members to the Cabinet and NDP therefore needed to reciprocate by joining the bigger party unconditionally. The KANU team also pointed out that KANU was the ruling party and could, therefore, not negotiate with NDP as equals. Temperatures soared when the NDP team rose to respond, with Mbita MP Otieno Kajwang, saying that the NDP was not prepared to just defect and beef up the existing KANU.