Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday was declared winner of Kenya’s presidential elections, defeating his rival Raila Odinga who is challenging the results. Mr. Kenyatta had 54.2 per cent of votes, according to final results declared by the electoral commission chair, Wafula Chebukati.
There is high security presence across Kenya ahead of the Friday's expected announcement of the winner of the Presidential elections. The leading candidates are President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga.
The opposition leader in Kenya, Raila Odinga has expressed his disappointment in claims by international election observers that the Kenyan elections were conducted in a credible way.
Kenya's main opposition coalition demanded Thursday that its candidate Raila Odinga be declared president, claiming it had evidence he had won an election that has already led to angry protests over fraud claims.
International observers on Thursday praised the handling of Kenya's presidential election, with the European Union mission saying it had seen no sign of manipulation despite opposition complaints and scattered protests.
Some members of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) are reported to have threatened to fish out ANC MPs who voted in favour of a motion to get President Jacob Zuma out of office.
A 23 year old Kenyan has been declared winner of his constituency’s parliamentary election in the Kenya general elections. The university student who stood as an independent candidate for Igembe South was declared the newly elected MP on Thursday.
Zimbabwe's cash-strapped government plans to build a $1 billion university named after 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe, the higher education minister said on Wednesday, a move that was quickly cricitised by the opposition as a waste of resources.
