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[Published: Monday June 08 2009]

Odinga hopeful for Kenya, Zimbabwe coalitions

Nairobi, 08 June-(ANA)-Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said that Kenya's rocky  coalition government will stick together until a 2012 election despite critics' predictions of a split or collapse before then.

"We are working very harmoniously together," Odinga said of his relationship with President Mwai Kibaki.

One of Africa's severest critics of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, the Kenyan premier also urged the world to respond positively to efforts by  prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, to restore financial aid.

Odinga and Tsvangirai, are both partners in coalition governments with presidents they say stole elections that they fought as opposition candidates for the top job.

"That coalition in Zimbabwe is modelled on our power-sharing arrangement," Odinga said in an interview. "I was myself very pessimistic about Robert Mugabe as a reformer ... I think the best way to get rid of Mugabe gradually is by empowering Tsvangirai."

Despite their distaste for Mugabe, Europe and the United States should respond positively to Tsvangirai's tour to drum up financial assistance for Zimbabwe's unity government, he said.(ANA)

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