Kenyans vote in close election, violence feared
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Guarded by police, Kenyans voted on Thursday in a presidential election preceded by violence, tainted by allegations of rigging and likely to be the closest in more than four decades since independence from Britain.
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Two heavyweights of Kenya's post-independence politics square off in a presidential vote on Thursday that has overshadowed Christmas and seen the opposition hold a small lead in opinion polls during the campaign.
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Kenya's feuding parties prepared on Monday for fresh duels in parliament and on the streets despite another international push to mediate a post-election crisis that has now killed at least 612 people.
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Kenya's presidential rivals were neck-and-neck on Saturday with nearly 90 percent of official results counted and accusations of rigging ignited ethnic violence across the east African nation.
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Kenyans waited for the result of their closest ever presidential election on Sunday, fearing more unrest after a chaotic vote count marred by widespread ethnic violence over accusations of rigging.
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Kenya's police commissioner urges poll losers to respect the outcome as counting continues in close elections.
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President Mwai Kibaki tried to fend off a fiery opposition leader in an election that was shaping up to be the closest in Kenyaâs history.
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Kenya's opposition hopeful held his lead over President Mwai Kibaki in two final opinion polls released on Thursday a week before an election some fear could provoke trouble in one of Africa's most mature democracies.
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Clashes over land that have killed hundreds of people and other deadly violence are endangering next week's general election, which is shaping up to be the closest in Kenya's history, officials said Friday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  -- International pressure mounted on Kenya's leaders Wednesday to end postelection violence that has killed more than 300 people, including dozens burned alive as they sought refuge in a church.
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Gunmen killed a Kenyan opposition politician at his home in the early hours of Tuesday and ethnic violence spread across the nation as a month-long political crisis threatened to spiral out of control.
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The government tightened security around Kenya's parliament Tuesday for its first session since a disputed presidential election, a fight that has provoked deadly violence and was expected to carry over to the selection of a house speaker.
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Early tallies by Kenyan broadcasters showed President Mwai Kibaki trailing his main rival on Friday in the country's closest-fought election since independence in 1963.
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MOLO, Kenya  - It's voting time again in Kenya. And that means a cycle of bloodshed and dislocation that elderly Peter Kaburu has been through too many times before.
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Kenyans will vote on December 27 in what is shaping up to be a tight race pitting President Mwai Kibaki against opposition firebrand and current poll leader Raila Odinga for leadership of east Africa's biggest economy.
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Several people were beaten and hacked to death with machetes in a Nairobi slum Sunday in renewed ethnic fighting over Kenya's disputed election, residents said.
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After a disputed election in Kenya, ethnic violence is threatening to engulf the country, formerly one of the most stable in Africa.