(CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) ✳ Officials fight at national tally centre ✳ Security whisks away IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati ✳ Odinga’s Azimio la Umoja refuse to sign form 34C ✳ Odinga refuses to come for results declaration Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Chaos broke out at the …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Kenya elections
Charles Onyango-Obbo, Mukasa-Mbidde, Godfrey Kiwanda, Patrick Wakida contrast them with Uganda Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | On August 9, Kenyans went to the polls to elect their leaders at presidential, county and parliamentary levels. The top presidential candidates Raila Odinga and William Ruto hotly competed. The general elections …
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Institutional safeguards still a work in progress ANALYSIS | JAMES D. LONG | Kenya has held its seventh national election since the reintroduction of multiparty competition in the early 1990s. Elections in the country are never dull affairs. They are always contested by ever-shifting and unstable political alliances that …
Read More »82% COUNTED: IEBC to announce results today
🔵 UPDATE 6.00am ➡ Ruto – 51.12% 6,081,048 votes ➡ Odinga- 48.20% 5,734,314 ➡ Wajackoyah – 0.45% 53,592 ➡ Waihiga- 0.23% 27,336 * 241 constituencies out of 291 (82.8%) (CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has received, counted …
Read More »Ruto and Odinga hit the 5 million votes mark
🔵 Kenya election RESULTS 9.30pm ✳ Ruto – 52.54% ➡ 5,620,912 votes ✳ Odinga- 46.78% ➡ 5,004,081 ✳ Wajackoyah – 0.45% ➡ 47,675 ✳ Waihiga- 0.23% ➡ 24,790 * 211 constituencies out of 291 (72.5%) (CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Both William Ruto …
Read More »Raila out in public for the first time since Tuesday poll
Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA | Azimio la Umoja presidential candidate Raila Odinga has stepped out for the first time since election day. Raila on Sunday attended a church service at St. Francis ACK Church in Karen. He was accompanied by Cotu boss Francis Atwoli, Kanu chairman Gideon Moi …
Read More »IEBC faces Monday deadline, Odinga holds lead
🔵 Kenya election RESULTS 2am ✳ Odinga – 50.01% ➡ 2,826,080 votes ✳ Ruto – 49.34% ➡ 2,787,871 ✳ Wajackoyah – 0.42% ➡ 23,758 ✳ Waihiga- 0.23% ➡ 12,938 * 113 constituencies out of 291 (38%) (CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Pressure is now piling …
Read More »Kenya Elections: Gain for Uganda stock market
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The lengthy vote counting process in Kenya is making the whole election period longer than it has been expected and hoped before, and this is influencing the activities in the financial markets. The business community in the region as a whole has been waiting …
Read More »KENYA: Odinga holds lead with 21% votes counted
🔵 LIVE – Kenya election RESULTS as at 4am ✳ Odinga – 57.13% ➡ 1,731,077 votes ✳ Ruto – 42.17% ➡ 1,279,733 ✳ Wajackoyah – 0.47% ➡ 14,297 ✳ Waihiga- 0.21% ➡ 6,659 * Results from 9,743 polling stations out of 46,229 (21%) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Latest results, read out …
Read More »IEBC OFFICIAL RESULTS: Ruto 51%, Odinga 47%
📌 IEBC OFFICIAL RESULTS 8AM ✳ Ruto- 51.05% ➡ 84,812 Votes ✳ Odinga- 47.90% ➡ 79,591 ✳ Wajackoyah- 0.81 ➡ 1,345 ✳ Waihiga- 0.24% ➡ 398 (CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenya’s election body IEBC has finally started releasing official results from this week’s …
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