Cord leader Raila Odinga has flown to South Africa to attend a conference on “The Future of African Cities” beginning Friday.
The meeting will be hosted by the Brenthurst Foundation.
The former Prime minister is expected back in the country at the weekend in readiness of Monday's .
Dennis Onyango, Raila's spokesman said in a statement on Thursday that the conference will focus on policy options for making cities liveable and economically viable.
"There will be particular focus on experience of practitioners from South Africa, Morocco, United Kingdom, Nigeria and Kenya."
On Wednesday, Raila with other Cord principals Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetangula insisted that the opposition will continue with its protests in an attempt to remove IEBC commissioners from office.
He said that the opposition would not use Parliament to remove the Commissioners as MPs are only agents of the people of Kenya.
Raila said that their "peaceful picketing" is meant to further communicate to Parliament that the issue of the electoral agency's commissioners cannot be decided on a partisan basis to achieve selfish political objectives.
"Moreover, our peaceful picketing is meant to communicate to the Jubilee Administration that it cannot protect the commissioners of the IEBC from the law and from a moral and conscientious duty to resign and expect that Cord will foolishly accept to participate in another election conducted by them," Raila said.