NAIROBI, Kenya -- A power struggle pitting President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga has raised tensions within Kenya's national unity government, formed in April 2008 following the previous year's violently disputed presidential election between the two. In a sign of worsening relations, Odinga has called for fresh national elections, with Kibaki holding firm to polling in 2012, as constitutionally mandated. Adding to the tensions is the infighting surrounding Kibaki's anticipated retirement in 2012, following his second five-year term in office, the maximum permitted. Already, eight people have shown interest in leading the country, with Uhuru Kenyatta, scion of the country's first president and currently the country's finance minister, thought to be Kibaki's preferred successor. Both Kibaki and Kenyatta belong to the country's numerically strong Kikuyu community, raising ethnic resentments over perceptions of the Kikuyu "laying claim" to the presidency.
Kenya Feuding Leads to Calls for Early Elections
