KENYA: Opposition violence after Kenyan president's poll victory

Record ID: 361051

  • Title: KENYA: Opposition violence after Kenyan president's poll victory
  • Date: 31st December 2007
  • Summary: (BN06) NAIROBI, KENYA (DECEMBER 31, 2007) (REUTERS) TRUCKLOADS OF POLICE DRIVE TOWARDS FIRE BURNING ON ROAD BURNING BARRICADE WITH POLICE RUNNING AND SHOUTING BURNING BARRICADE/ ELECTION POSTER POLICE FACE PROTESTERS POLICE FIRE TEAR GAS AT PROTESTERS PROTESTERS HIDE BY SIDE OF ROAD, POLICE MOVE WOMEN ON POLICEMAN BEATS PROTESTER WITH STICK POLICE FORCE PROTESTERS TO LI
  • Embargoed: 15th January 2008 12:00
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  • Location: Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAEDJRWJJ8J69PVB2OIGCBUKDJ0
  • Story Text: Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's disputed election victory triggers deadly opposition riots and looting in Nairobi slum as police move in to quell the violence.
    Police battled protesters in blazing slums of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Monday (December 31) after incumbent President Mwai Kibaki won a disputed election victory.
    Police beat protesters and flushed looters out of buildings in the sprawling Kibera slum, which is within opposition leader Raila Odinga's Nairobi constituency.
    Oil drums set alight by protesters burned in the streets as security forces tried to re-establish order.
    As details emerged of a night of violence, witnesses and local media said 21 bodies. most of them with gunshot wounds, were lying in a mortuary in the western Kenyan town of Kisumu.
    Much of the fighting in many areas of Kenya pitched ethnic Luos, who support Odinga, against Kibaki's Kikuyu supporters.
    Kibaki, aged 76, was sworn in for a second term as president within an hour of being pronounced victor in an election denounced as fraudulent by opposition challenger Odinga.
    International observers questioned the credibility of the elections.
    Odinga announced that his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) would hold an alternative inauguration on Monday.
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