Kenya Votes....Huge Turnout

[Paragon]

Huge turnout in Kenya vote

 

Millions of Kenyans have voted in a close-fought national election marred by delays, sporadic trouble and rigging charges from the opposition.

 

Police on Thursday fired teargas to disperse an angry crowd in one district, as voters across the east African country took part in the tightest contest since independence from Britain in 1963.

 

 

Mwai Kibaki, the incumbent president, is vying for the top job with former ally Raila Odinga, who is determined to realise a long-held dream of leading the region's top economy.

 

In Nairobi's vast Kibera slum, gunmen shot dead one man and wounded two others near a polling station.

 

 

Vote delay

 

 

Voting had been due to stop at 5:00 pm (1400 GMT) nationwide but was extended in many regions after some polling stations opened late due to heavy rains and delays in the arrival of polling staff and equipment.

 

 

"Those polling stations that opened on time have closed and those where voting started late are going on," Jack Tumwa, an official with the electoral commission, said.

 

Official and definitive results are only expected on Friday but partial results could start filtering as early as Thursday night.

 

 

Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, the chief EU election observer, said he had seen no evidence of fraud.

 

Voters were choosing their president as well as 210 members of parliament and some 2,000 local councillors.

 

Opinion polls in the run up to the elections suggested that the contest would be very tight, with Kibaki and Odinga in a neck-and-neck race.

 

If Kibaki loses, he will be Kenya's first sitting president ousted at the ballot box. Analysts say the chance of a second transfer of power in two elections shows democratic maturity. Others fear it heightens the potential for trouble.

 

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[Paragon]

I want Kibaki out. I was there during the Mungiki witch-hunt and my God it was a scary shidh. I told anyone before but I run like hell when the cops come chasing Mungiki suspects through Eastleigh.

 

This is what the police did to poor folks in Kibera...

 

[Laba-X]

J11 - kan shaatiga cas oo dhukuran ninyohow jeegadaada iyo dhegahaagoo kaluu leeyahaye maadigaa?