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📌 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 …

📌 KENYA PROVISIONAL RESULTS at Midnight ✳ Ruto- 49.91% ➡ 6,691,923 Votes ✳ Odinga- 49.41% ➡ 6,624,238 ✳ Wajackoyah- 0.44% ➡ 59,404 ✳ Waihiga- 0.23% ➡ 31,222 (CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Provisional results from vote counting in Kenya’s general election indicate William Ruto has retaken …

📌 KENYA PROVISIONAL RESULTS 4pm ✳ Odinga- 49.78% ➡ 6,348,977 Votes ✳ Ruto- 49.54% ➡ 6,317,886 Votes ✳ Wajackoyah- 0.45% ➡ 56,876 Votes ✳ Waihiga- 0.23% ➡ 29,710 Votes Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT, XINHUA & URN | Provisional results from vote counting in Kenya’s general election indicate Raila Odinga and Ruto may …

📌 KENYA PROVISIONAL RESULTS 4am ✳ Odinga- 51.26% ➡5,090,491 Votes ✳ Ruto- 48.06% ➡ 4,773,169 ✳ Wajackoyah- 0.45% ➡ 44,271 ✳ Waihiga- 0.23% ➡ 22,797 Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT, XINHUA & URN | Provisional results from vote counting in Kenya’s general election indicate Raila Odinga holds a slim lead with …

Minister says Ugandans will get the new national IDs free of charge Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) will start a new round of the national identity card registration exercise for all Ugandans in June next year, as the current IDs expire in 2024. The …

Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT & Xinhua | Kenyans start voting for lawmakers and a new president early today after a campaign in which the key issues were rising food costs and corruption. Long lines of eager voters were already showing up in the capital Nairobi by 6.00am ahead of Kenya’s …

Trump confirms FBI now at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida Washington, US  | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday evening that his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, had been raided by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Trump said in a statement that his …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Due to the increasing rate of road accidents, Uganda Police has started a name and shame campaign, one of several strategies to bring back sanity on the roads. Assistant Superintendent of Police-ASP Faridah Nampiima, who is the traffic police spokesperson, on …

And why neighbours are watching every step COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenyans are gearing up for an important general election on Aug. 09 that will end President Uhuru Kenyatta’s two terms in office. It will be the country’s seventh general election since the resumption of multiparty electoral democracy …

These children were born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan to women and young girls who were abducted by LRA rebels during the war that lasted close to two decades in northern Uganda Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 1,017 children who …