Kibaki in close fight to keep power in Kenya
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Early forecasts showed Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki in a close fight on Friday with his main challenger after an election diplomats praised as smooth, despite sporadic violence and rigging claims by both sides.
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Early tallies by Kenyan broadcasters showed President Mwai Kibaki trailing his main rival on Friday in the race to lead east Africa's biggest economy for the next five years.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki is ahead in the presidential election with 45 percent, versus 41.2 for opposition leader Raila Odinga, according to an exit poll by a local independent election observer group.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya's main opposition party said Friday it plans three days of mass rallies next week to protest President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, which has sparked waves of deadly violence across the East African nation.
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Kenya's bloody election dispute has been in the making for decades, its main components poverty and tribal tensions.
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Kenya's main presidential contenders held huge rallies in the capital on Monday, a final push to win votes in a race deemed too close to call.
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Foreign mediators raised the pressure on Kenya's president and opposition leader on Thursday to end post-electoral turmoil that has killed 500 people, but there was little sign the two were ready to meet or compromise.
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OTHAYA, Kenya  - With a political career as old as his nation, President Mwai Kibaki faces a verdict on his progress leading east Africa's biggest economy and efforts to fix years of corruption at his final election battle this month.
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Kenya's opposition challenger Raila Odinga on Saturday led in the race to govern east Africa's largest economy, in a tight contest that has seen a dozen government ministers thrown out.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki leads Thursday's presidential election with 47.4 percent of the vote, versus 42.7 for opposition leader Raila Odinga, according to an exit poll by a local independent observer group.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki leads Thursday's presidential election with 47.3 percent of the vote versus 42.8 for opposition leader Raila Odinga, according to an early exit poll by a local independent observer group.
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Under U.S. pressure, Kenya's president and his chief rival agreed to talks and made other concessions to end their deadly election dispute. The opposition, meanwhile, claimed violence, much of it fueled by tribal rivalries, has killed up to 1,000 people, but the government put the toll at nearly 500.
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Opposition leader Raila Odinga pulled ahead of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday in the race to lead east Africa's biggest economic power, according to early tallies by local media.
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Kenya's government and opposition are due to begin full negotiations to try to end the country's political crisis.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki was to formally launch his re-election campaign on Sunday via a live address widely trailed as announcing a new political party to replace the coalition that brought him to power in 2002.
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Kenyans faced a second day of protests on Thursday as the opposition called for more rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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President Mwai Kibaki beat opposition rival Raila Odinga by a narrow margin to win re-election in Kenya's closest ever vote, the head of the country's electoral commission (ECK) said on Sunday.