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☆ Opposition arrests, tear gas fired at Kenyan protests
  + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Humphrey Malalo Ayenat Mersie | Humphrey Malalo | Ayenat Mersie | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
REUTERS/Monicah MwangiNAIROBI, March 20 (Reuters) - Kenyan police fired tear gas and arrested several senior opposition politicians as hundreds of people protested against President William Ruto, the high cost of living and claims of cheating in last year's election. Raila Odinga, who lost to Ruto in August's poll, has urged nationwide protests as he attempts to harness dissatisfaction with the president. Police officers in riot gear fired tear gas at hundreds of rock-throwing protesters in the capital Nairobi's vast Kibera slum, who chanted: "Ruto must go." They also used tear gas to disperse demonstrators trying to gather in the Central Business District, from where Odinga has called for a march toward the president's State House residence, Reuters reporters said. In the western city of Kisumu, an Odinga stronghold, police fired barrages of tear gas in the direction of protesters who had started fires in the road, footage on Citizen TV showed.
☆ Fact Check-Photo of damaged helicopter miscaptioned as alleged incident in Nigeria
  + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
A photo of a damaged helicopter window has been miscaptioned online by people who claim it was taken after being used by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2023. Social media users claim the photo of the broken cockpit glass was evidence that Buhari had escaped from “angry youths” who attacked his helicopter during a visit to Kano (here ) , (here ). There were conflicting reports about the alleged incident (here , here , here) which are outside the scope of this check. According to local media, the helicopter of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga was pelted with stones while he attended a burial (here ). On my way to the plane, they had pelted my vehicles with stones.
☆ Kenya's Ruto tells Amanpour 'Kenyatta has not seen fit to congratulate me'
  + stars: | 2022-09-07 | by ( Jack Guy | Emmet Lyons | Henry Hullah | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
Asked about the peaceful proceedings, Ruto said that the situation has been improving since 2007, and the next election will be even better. Amanpour later asked whether outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta, who supported Odinga's election bid despite Ruto being his vice-president, had been in touch since the election. "Unfortunately, President Kenyatta has not seen it fit to congratulate me," he said. Amanpour later quizzed Ruto on human rights, particularly his previous comments that there was "no room" for homosexuality in Kenyan society. Amanpour also pressed Ruto on his controversial promise to deport Chinese people from Kenya, but the President-elect argued that he had been taken out of context.
☆ Kenya's Supreme Court confirms William Ruto's victory in presidential vote.
  + stars: | 2022-09-05 | by ( Stephanie Busari Bethlehem Feleke Larry Madowo | Stephanie Busari | Bethlehem Feleke | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld results declaring William Ruto winner of last month’s presidential elections. However, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected his claims and decided the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) held a credible election last month. We commend Raila Odinga and other candidates for abiding by the Supreme Court ruling. It was Odinga’s fifth time running and his third time challenging his loss in presidential elections through the Supreme Court, having filed a case after the last two elections in 2013 and 2017. But the Supreme court said the commission needed “far-reaching reforms” due to major dysfunction and governance failures.
☆ Who is Kenya's new President-elect William Ruto?
  + stars: | 2022-08-16 | by ( Stephanie Busari | Nimi Princewill | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
(CNN) William Ruto has emerged the winner of a tense and fiercely fought contest for Kenya's presidency, but who is the man who will lead east Africa's largest economy? Ruto, who has served as deputy president since 2013, pulled off a stunning defeat against his chief opponent, veteran politician Raila Odinga. "There were predictions that we won't get here, but ... we are here," Ruto declared in his victory speech on Monday. Odinga later doubled down, saying on Tuesday that, in his coalition's view, "there is neither a legally and validly declared winner nor a president-elect." Supporters of William Ruto, Kenya's President elect, celebrate in Eldoret on August 15, 2022.
☆ Kenya elections 2022: Harrassed and abused, Kenya's female politicians struggle to get elected
  + stars: | 2022-08-06 | by ( Larry Madowo | Bethlehem Feleke | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
Lamu, Kenya (CNN) Just before sunset, Umra Omar boards a speedboat that will take her around the historic Lamu channel for meetings with voters. She is among a record number of women running for office in Kenya's August 9 general election. She says she is running for office as a natural progression after seven years of providing "band-aid solutions" for poor healthcare. 'Kenya is ready for women at all levels'If opposition leader Raila Odinga wins, Kenya could have its first female deputy president in 64-year-old Martha Karua. So that question is in itself discriminatory," the former Kenyan justice minister tells CNN.
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