NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — Kenya swore in a new Cabinet Thursday, split 50-50 between former bitter enemies from opposing parties.
Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki, left, and opposition leader Raila Odinga during negotiations last week. The swearing-in caps a long-negotiated power-sharing compromise between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga, and ends a dispute over December’s elections that led to widespread violence. Kibaki remains president, but he has tapped Odinga as prime minister — the first time Kenya’s government will have both. Under the power-sharing agreement, which Kibaki and Odinga signed on February 28, Cabinet positions were to be distributed equally, but the two sides disagreed on how they would be divided. Even as negotiators proposed an expansion of the Cabinet to 40 posts, the two sides had been unable to agree until Saturday.
(Source:CNN)