Nairobi - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has warned that new elections may be the only way to solve an ever-widening rift in the coalition government formed early in 2008 to end the post-election violence that ripped the county apart. Odinga is battling Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka for control of government business in parliament.

Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) says the constitution gave the president the right to appoint Musyoka as the head of government business.

Odingai is furious, believing it is part of attempts to sideline him.

Nairobi  - Kenya's coalition government, formed to bring an end to the post-election violence that ripped the county apart in early 2008, was Thursday locked in talks aimed at preventing an increasingly fragile alliance falling apart.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga, of the Orange Democratic Movement, on Wednesday said members of his party would boycott cabinet meetings.

The ODM feels is is being sidelined by President Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity. Odinga's party walked out of earlier talks with the PNU.

Washington  - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga called Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe an "embarrassment" to Africa and said international peacekeepers should be sent to the country to ensure free elections can be held.

Odinga's comments came while meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ahead of her plans to co-chair a UN Security Council session to discuss the human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.