2017-10-26 13:06:00

Kenyans go to the polls in re-run vote


Violence has marred voting in Kenya's second Presidential election since August.

Clashes erupted in Nairobi's Kibera slum and Kisumu, a major city in the west.  One man was shot dead in Kisumu and three others injured during protests  as opposition supporters try to stop Thursday's elections. A primary school which had served as a polling station was closed in the same area. 

Voting, however went ahead in areas where President Uhuru Kenyatta has support.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who got nearly 45 percent of the vote in August, has said the new election won't be credible because of a lack of electoral reform and accused Kenyatta of moving a country known for relative stability and openness toward authoritarian rule.

Odinga had called for a boycott of this re-run vote.

 

 








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