Editing Mwai Kibaki (section)

===2008: National accord and Grand Coalition Government===
The country was only saved by the mediation of [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[Kofi Annan]] with a panel of "Eminent African Personalities" backed by the [[African Union]], the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Following the mediation, a deal, called the national accord, was signed in February 2008 between [[Raila Odinga]] and Kibaki, now referred to as the "two Principals". The accord, later passed by the Kenyan Parliament as the [[National Accord and Reconciliation Act 2008]] provided ''[[inter alia]]'' for power-sharing, with Kibaki remaining President and [[Raila Odinga]] taking a newly re-created post of Prime Minister.

On 17 April 2008, [[Raila Odinga]] was sworn in as [[Prime Minister of Kenya]], along with a power-sharing Cabinet, with 42 [[government minister|ministers]] and 50 assistant ministers, Kenya's largest ever. The cabinet was fifty percent Kibaki appointed ministers and fifty percent Raila appointed ministers, and was in reality a carefully balanced ethnic [[coalition]]. The arrangement, which also included [[Kalonzo Musyoka]] as vice president, was known as the "Grand Coalition Government".<ref>"Odinga Sworn in as Kenyan Premier" {{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7351842.stm |title=Odinga sworn in as Kenyan premier |date=17 April 2008 |access-date=8 June 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917011332/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7351842.stm |archive-date=17 September 2016}}-accessed 8 June 2009.</ref>