Opposition Leader Raila Odinga (left) shakes hands with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki after Kibaki announced Odinga as the prime minister at State House in Nairobi yesterday. Kenyan Vice-president Kalonzo Musyoka looks on. - AP

NAIROBI (AP):

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announced a coalition Cabinet yesterday following talks with opposition leader Raila Odinga, officials said, confirming the rivals have ended protracted negotiations over how to implement a power-sharing deal.

Kibaki and Odinga made "a break-through" in daylong talks Saturday at an official presidential residence outside the capital, Nairobi, the president's office said in a statement.

Kibaki and Odinga agreed in February to share power after weeks of deadly violence following the country's disputed presidential election on December 27.

Kibaki and Odinga had said they would announce a new Cabinet on April 6, but they did not do so after failing to reach agreement on how to divide a 40-member Cabinet.

Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement party had suspended talks with Kibaki last Tuesday, saying the president must first dissolve the current Cabinet and share the posts equally.

Cabinet delay

The public has grown increasingly impatient with Kibaki and Odinga. For three days this week, scuffles broke out in Kenya's largest slum, Kibera, between the police and people protesting the Cabinet delay. There were no reports of injuries.

Kibera was the scene of some of the worst post-election violence in January and February, which killed more than 1,000 people and displaced around 300,000 across the country of 36 million.

Kibaki and Odinga also came under international pressure this week to reach agreement, with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calling them last Monday and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband expressing dismay at the delay.