Kenya heads to the polls Tuesday to select the country’s new president. Here's what to know about the vote
towards winning over the Kikuyus and has made headway, despite opposition from Kenyatta, who is part of the community. “Within Kenyatta’s ethnic base, Odinga is actually losing to Ruto but Kenyatta has been useful for Odinga in helping craft a national coalition,” says Georgetown’s Opalo. “Without Kenyatta’s support, Odinga would not have been able to build the broad national coalition that he’s been able to put together.
And in December 2007, after President Mwai Kibaki of the right-wing Party of National Unity was declared winner of that year’s presidential election against Odinga, a dispute over Kibaki’s reelection led to weeks of violence along ethnic lines. At leastand more than 300,000 fled their homes. The Kikuyu, of which Kibaki hails, were the initial targets of violence following voting irregularities and allegations of fraud. But reprisal killings, particularly in the Rift Valley, quickly followed.
Kenya's president-elect, Uhuru Kenyatta with his running mate William Ruto hold up certificates of election on Oct. 30, 2017 at the national tallying center at Bomas of Kenya, where they were announced winners of a repeat presidential poll by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman. Kenyatta was declared victor of the country's deeply divisive elections on Oct. 30, taking 98 percent of the ballots cast in a poll boycotted by his rival Raila Odinga.
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