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Kenyatta wins presidency by slim margin in Kenyan election
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Contributor | Ashley |
Last Edited | Ashley Mar 09, 2013 02:42am |
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Category | News |
Author | Edmund Blair and Richard Lough |
Media | News Service - Reuters |
News Date | Saturday, March 9, 2013 06:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding president, won the presidential election by the slimmest of margins with 50.03 percent, provisional results showed, just enough to avoid a run-off after a race that has divided the nation along tribal lines.
Kenyatta faces trial for crimes against humanity. If he is declared president-elect by the election commission, which has still to announce the official result, Kenya will become the second African country after Sudan to have a sitting president indicted by the International Criminal Court.
In the early hours of Saturday joyous supporters of Kenyatta thronged the streets in his tribal strongholds, lighting fluorescent flares and waving tree branches and chanting "Uhuru, Uhuru," television pictures showed. |
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