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Mobile money keeps Kenya economy moving
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Kenya has led Africa's innovative and revolutionary embrace of mobile telephones, and the country's technology sector has grown faster than all others in east Africa's regional economic hub. Bob Collymore, chief exe...
In Focus: Kenya on the brink (II)
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IMF food subsidy cuts, import-dependent staple food, an independence movement by Muslims in Mombasa and many more, has put Kenya in serious trouble. Hunger speculators lead by financial terrorists such as Goldman Sa...
Al Jazeera speaks with Kenyan election expert
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Al Jazeera speaks with Kenyan election expert Makodingo Washington about the disputed poll results.
Kenyan premier to challenge results of presidential election
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Kenyan Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta who is the son of the first independent Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta is now the Kenya's fourth president. Kenyatta aged 52 beat his close rival Prime Minister Raila Oding...
Odinga supporters voice anger at poll result
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Uhuru Kenyatta , Kenya's deputy prime minister, has narrowly won the country's presidential election with 50.07 percent of the vote, official results show, just enough to avoid a runoff with rival Raila Odinga, the ...
Kenyans react to Kenyatta victory
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Uhuru Kenyatta, deputy prime minister, has been declared poll winner with 50.07 percent of the vote, as rival Raila Odinga says he will contest the result. In Nairobi, supporters of Kenyatta's Jubilee Coalition cele...
Raila Odinga says he is contesting the Kenyan poll ‘in the interest of justice’
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Raila Odinga, outgoing prime minister of Kenya, has said he will contest the victory of rival Uhuru Kenyatta based on "irregularities and rigging" in last week's general elections. Speaking to Al Jazeera's Nazanine ...
Kenya delays election result
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The commissioners of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission have gathered to try and verify the final result of the country's general elections.Uhuru Kenyatta has a provisional lead with 50.03 percent, ...
Kenyans await Odinga’s next move
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Provisional results show Uhuru Kenyatta has won just more than half of the votes, enough to avoid a run-off. Kenyans want to know whether the narrow win will unite the country and finally bring peace. But Raila Odin...
Kenya early vote count gives Kenyatta victory
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Uhuru Kenyatta has won Kenya's presidential election with a slim margin of 50.03 percent of votes cast, according to provisional figures displayed by the ele...
Kenya election results delayed over glitches
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Ballot-counting from this week's Kenyan general and presidential elections has been facing delays due to technical glitches in an electronic counting system. The country's electoral commission (IBEC) previously hope...
Mohammed Adow live from Nairobi on rejected ballots
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More than three hundred thousand ballots from Monday's election were rejected for failing to follow strict voting guidelines. This has so far delayed the result. But Kenyans remain upbeat despite the uncertainty. Mo...
Kenya to push for ivory trade crackdown at Bangkok CITES meeting
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March 5 - Kenya will be pushing for a crackdown on the illegal ivory trade in Asia at this week's Convention for the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES), in Bangkok, Thailand. Conservationists in Kenya...
Kenya poll puts new voting rules to the test
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Confidence in the new voting system is crucial as results of the Kenya general election is expected within 48 hours. The party of Prime Minister Raila Odinga is concerned about what it calls irregularities in the pr...
Kenyans vote amid violence
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Long queues across polling stations saw thousands voting to choose Kenya's next president, parliament members, governors and senators. Over 14.3 million registered voters, were expected to cast their votes. Most pol...
Security concerns ahead of Kenya election
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One of Kenya's biggest challenges as it goes to the polls is security. The country has been rocked by a series of grenade attacks and ethnic violence, claiming the lives of 200 people since August 2012. There are pl...
Kenyan voter: ‘if it takes all day, it takes two days’ I will vote
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Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri, reports from the Kibera neighbourhood of Nairobi, where voters have queued for hours to cast their ballots in the Kenyan general elections. Our correspondent spoke to Vincent, a voter ...
Vote counting underway in Kenya election
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Polling has now officially closed in Kenya's general election, but some stations have remained open to allow those already in line to cast their votes. It is the first time Kenyans have voted under a new constitutio...