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Wafula Chebukati, Chiarman of the IEBC, said areas where voting would be delayed included Homa Hay, Kisumu, Migori and Siaya, all in the opposition stronghold of western Kenya.

The first presidential vote in August, which gave victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta, was annulled because of procedural irregularities.

a rerun of the presidential election was ordered by the Supreme Court on September 1 after it nullified the August 8 re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta, following a petition by opposition leader, Raila Odinga

In a report, amnesty international and human rights watch, said that excessive force by police against protesters and residents in strongholds of opposition leader Raila Odinga caused the deaths in Nairobi.

Kenyatta and Odinga were due to return to the polls because the Supreme Court nullified Kenyatta’s win in an August 8 election, citing procedural irregularities

The opposition leader had announced his withdrawal from the presidential re-run elections scheduled for October 26

Paul Ongiu, popularly known as Baba Owino, is an MP in the opposition party of Raila Odinga, who faces Kenyatta in an election re-run in October after August’s poll results were thrown out over irregularities.
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“A coup in Kenya has just been done by the four people in the Supreme Court,” Kenyatta said in a live, televised speech delivered mostly in Kiswahili.

Giving the full reasons for the cancellation of the election, which IEBC gave to incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s Supreme Court rebuked IEBC officials for bungling the transmission of results and basing the outcome on dubious documents.

I was moved to write after watching an excerpt of your first press conference in which you lamented the “unfair” outcome of the ruling, but indicated that you were constrained to abide by the decision of the court

Kenya has a history of disputed elections

Kenyatta, whose August 8 re-election is being challenged in the supreme court by opposition leader Raila Odinga, said citizens were angry with extravagance in the government.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga’s National Super Alliance said in a petition filed that results from more than a third of polling stations were “fatally flawed” in some cases because of irregularities in electronic transmission of paper results forms.

Red Cross volunteers are digging for survivors and supporting distraught families in the wake of heavy flooding and mudslides that have ripped through Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown.

Speaking for the first time since his re-election on Friday, Kenyatta called on those not happy with the outcome of the August 8 polls to pursue constitutional means to address their grievances and urged Kenyans to resume work as they maintain peace and unity.

Traders told Reuters in Nairobi that the surge was due to the endorsements of the election by various foreign observer groups.

Laolu Akande, the acting President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, said the congratulatory message was contained in a letter signed by Osinbajo and addressed to the Kenyan leader.

A security official told Reuters that the bodies of nine young men shot dead overnight in Nairobi’s Mathare slum had been brought to the city morgue.

Provisional results show President Uhuru Kenyatta with a lead of 1.4 million votes as he vies for a second and final five-year term.

But as long as people, especially politicians, know that they can get away with murder, they will continue to kill