Kenyan presidential race goes down to the wire
AFP - December 29, 2007
Supporters of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga went on the rampage Saturday, accusing incumbent Mwai Kibaki of rigging the presidential vote and protesting continuing delays to the final results.
The electoral board said the elusive presidential result was now expected on Sunday as its latest count showed Odinga's once clear lead had melted away to less than 40,000 votes, intensifying accusations of systematic vote stealing.
Odinga supporters hit the streets in Nairobi and across the country, looting and starting fires despite calls from their party and observers to exercise restraint.
"There are riots all over the country, except a few areas, but there is sufficient security to maintain law and order," a top police official told AFP.
Hundreds of opposition supporters faced off Saturday morning with riot police in the massive pro-Odinga Nairobi slum of Kibera, shouting "No Raila, No Kenya!" and "We want our rights!"
Police fired live shots in the air to disperse feuding mobs, while water cannons doused the flames of shops and houses set ablaze by demonstrators ...