Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga dies

Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80.

Indian newspaper Mathrubhumi earlier reported that Odinga, who was undergoing treatment in the southern Indian city of Kochi, suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday and was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Odinga’s work as a democracy activist over the years helped seal two of the country’s most important reforms: multiparty democracy in 1991 and a new constitution in 2010. – Reuters

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