Defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga of Kenya is expected Wednesday to announce his plans for moving forward and “dealing with election fraud” after last week’s disputed voting results. The Nasa opposition candidate, whose coalition has cried foul over President Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory, had planned his address for Tuesday but postponed…
President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has been declared winner of the August 8 presidential election, but opposition candidate Raila Odinga remained adamant that the results are fraudulent and rejected the Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) announcement late Friday. Kenyatta was declared president-elect with 8,203,290 votes, or 54.27 percent of…
Kenyan opposition candidate Raila Odinga on Thursday again challenged the reported results of the country’s presidential election and demanded that Kenya’s election commission declare him the winner. Odinga, speaking at a news conference on behalf of his Nasa coalition, said real results show him with more than 8 million votes…
Authorities in Kenya say that a key election official responsible for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) technology systems was tortured and killed, just days before the country’s contentious elections. Chris Msando was missing for three days before his body was discovered near Kikuyu, to the northwest of Nairobi….
Western diplomats in Kenya issued a joint statement on Thursday urging the nation’s leaders to move forward in this year’s election process in a fair and transparent manner. The statement followed a three-day National Election Conference this week in Nairobi, geared toward ensuring a peaceful election process on August 8….
An independent audit of Kenya’s voter registration rolls shows a number of discrepancies, including 2.9 million voters with some type of inaccuracy in their records, with the recommendation that thousands of names of now-deceased persons need to be removed by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of Kenya. Comprehensive…
Kenyans have until the end of the day on Thursday to register to vote and be eligible to participate in the August 8 election, after a decision by the country’s High Court extended a registration deadline until a legal challenge is reviewed. Those registrations were to have closed on Tuesday. The…