- Title: Kenyan voters pray before heading to polls
- Date: 8th August 2017
- Summary: GATUNDU, KENYA (AUGUST 8, 2017) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) EXTERIOR OF POLLING CENTRE VOTERS QUEUING 104 YEAR-OLD VOTER LYDIA GATHONI LEADING IEBC (INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL AND BOUNDARIES COMMISSION) OFFICERS IN PRAYER VARIOUS OF IEBC OFFICERS IN PRAYER INSIDE POLLING STATION IEBC OFFICERS SORTING BALLOT PAPERS GATHONI GOING IN TO VOTE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE VOTING
- Embargoed: 22nd August 2017 05:24
- Keywords: elections Gatundu first voter in Gatundu elderly voter polling centre
- Location: GATUNDU, KENYA
- City: GATUNDU, KENYA
- Country: Kenya
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA0016TAOYTJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Millions of people go to the polls in Kenya on Tuesday (August 8) amid fears that the latest electoral clash between its foremost political dynasties could once again descend into violence.
In President Uhuru Kenyatta's hometown of Gatundu, 104-year-old voter Lydia Gathoni led prayers for election officials before she went on to be the first to cast her vote.
Kenyatta, 55, the businessman son of Kenya's first president, is running for the second time against arch rival Raila Odinga, a 72-year-old former political prisoner and son of the east African nation's first vice-president.
After two months of campaigning marked by fiery rhetoric but public speeches largely free of the ethnic hate that has sullied previous contests, opinion polls have put the pair neck-and-neck.
The winner needs one vote more than 50 percent. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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