Kenya president eyes re-election
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Kenya's president says he will stand for re-election in December as a candidate for a new political alliance.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 27 -- Waiting in hours-long lines and in some cases queuing up well before dawn, Kenyans streamed to the polls by the millions Thursday in what was shaping up to be the most open and competitive presidential election since the country gained independence from Britain in 1963.
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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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African Union mediation to end Kenya's  post-election turmoil, in which up to 1,000 people may have  died, could start on Wednesday, opposition leader Raila Odinga  said on Monday.
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Attorney General Amos Wako called on Thursday for an independent probe into Kenya's election after a day of battles between police and protesters disputing the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is due to meet Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday to try to end a post-election crisis after persuading the opposition to call off further street protests.
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Kenya said on Wednesday it would act tougher to reign in post-election violence threatening to spiral out of control in the east African nation's darkest moment since independence in 1963.
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Kenya's opposition leader calls for a recount in the country's knife-edge election, amid allegations of fraud.
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Kenya's main opposition party says it will resume mass protests after last month's disputed elections.
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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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Kenya's electoral chief compared the president to a notoriously corrupt predecessor on Wednesday and acknowledged the December election may have been rigged.
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Ghana's President John Kufuor was set Thursday to resume talks with Kenyan leaders to break political deadlock after disputed presidential polls that touched off a wave of deadly unrest.
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Kenyans waited on edge 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 opposition said on Friday it planned to restart protests across the east African nation against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election after the failure of African Union (AU) mediation.
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Incumbent president Mwai Kibaki has been re-elected as leader of Kenya, the country's electoral commission announced Sunday.
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Kenya's president threatened a tough crackdown Monday as rioters rampaged for a third day to protest what they called his sham re-election Â a bloody convulsion threatening what has been East Africa's most stable and prosperous democracy.
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Kenya's president and his chief rival held talks Thursday for the first time since last month's disputed election, under international pressure to find a way to share power. But the president angered the opposition by insisting his position as head of state was not negotiable.