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🔵 FINAL RESULTS – KENYA ELECTION ✳ William Ruto – 50.49% ➡ 7,176,141 votes ✳ Raila Odinga – 48.85% ➡ 6,942,930 votes ✳ Wajackoyah – 0.44% ➡ 61,969 ✳ Waihiga- 0.23% ➡ 31,987 (CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has …

  🔵 FINAL RESULTS – KENYA ELECTION ✳ William Ruto – 50.49% ➡ 7,176,141 votes ✳ Raila Odinga – 48.85% ➡ 6,942,930 votes ✳ Wajackoyah – 0.44% ➡ 61,969 ✳ Waihiga       – 0.23% ➡ 31,987 Nairobi, Kenya  | THE STAR KENYA |  Azimio-One Kenya presidential candidate Raila Odinga has lost the …

(CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) ✳ Officials fight at national tally centre ✳ Security whisks away IEBC chair Wafula Chebukati ✳ Odinga’s Azimio la Umoja refuse to sign form 34C ✳ Odinga refuses to come for results declaration Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Chaos broke out at the …

New York, USA  | Xinhua |  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday announced the appointment of Amir Mahmoud Abdulla of Sudan as the world body’s coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative. Abdulla succeeds Frederick Kenney of the United States who was on loan by the International Maritime Organization as …

Yaounde, Cameroon | Xinhua | “Stand by!” shouts the director as actors take their marks. The lighting blinks on. The film crew snaps into action after the order to hurry up. It’s a sunny day in Tiko, a locality in southwestern Cameroon and a local film crew is gathered to …

Canberra, Australia | Xinhua |  The Australian government has flagged an increase to the country’s migrant intake. Brendan O’Connor, minister for skills and training, said the new Labor government was considering raising the annual migration cap from its current level of 160,000 with more skilled migrants, including health care workers …

🔵 UPDATE 6.00am ➡ Ruto – 51.12% 6,081,048 votes ➡ Odinga- 48.20% 5,734,314 ➡ Wajackoyah – 0.45% 53,592 ➡ Waihiga- 0.23% 27,336 * 241 constituencies out of 291 (82.8%) (CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has received, counted …

🔵 Kenya election RESULTS 9.30pm ✳ Ruto – 52.54% ➡ 5,620,912 votes ✳ Odinga- 46.78% ➡ 5,004,081 ✳ Wajackoyah – 0.45% ➡ 47,675 ✳ Waihiga- 0.23% ➡ 24,790 * 211 constituencies out of 291 (72.5%) (CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Both William Ruto …

William Ruto and Raila Odinga are in a neck and neck race Nairobi, Kenya  | THE STAR KENYA | Police on Sunday used horses to disperse rowdy youth at the entrance of Bomas of Kenya. The youths camped there after some leaders were barred from getting into the tallying centre. Some …

Hamilton spent his time at the Maasai Mara Reserve Nairobi, Kenya  | THE STAR KENYA |  Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton left Kenya Saturday after a week-long holiday that took him to various places in the region. Hamilton spent his time at the Maasai Mara Reserve before he briefly flew …