kenya election

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has won the Presidential rerun with slightly more than 98 per cent of the total votes. The head of the election commission made the announcement on Monday. The turnout for the vote, which was boycotted by opposition leader Raila Odinga, was just under 39...

Staff at a polling centre in Mombasa, on the coast of Kenya, have the unenviable task of cleaning up human faeces left by protesters keen to show - and share - their disgust with the electoral process. According to BBC quoting local reports said residents stormed Bagladesh polling station with...

Opposition supporters in Kenya have clashed with the Kenyan police as the presidential election rerun holds. Angry youths were reported burning barricades and preventing voting in some towns, seeking to challenge the credibility of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s expected victory. READ MORE HERE

An election board commissioner has resigned and fled the country a week before a re-run of the presidential vote, citing political intimidation and saying the election would be a “mockery” of democracy. The resignation of Roselyn Akombe, one of seven election board commissioners, is likely to...

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday congratulated Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on his re-election. Osinbajo, in a letter he signed after the formal announcement of the election results over the weekend and addressed to the Kenyan leader, said: "I have the honour on behalf of the...

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has been re-elected following Tuesday's election, officials say. Mr Kenyatta, in office since 2013, took 54.3% of votes, ahead of his rival Raila Odinga, with 44.7%. After the announcement, Mr Kenyatta called for unity, telling opposition supporters: "I...

Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga has begged his supporters not to have sex on the eve of the elections on August 8. Speaking in his local Dholuo language at a rally in Homa Bay, Kenya early this week, the Odinga said his supporters should only be intimate after the results are...