Kenyatta Declared Kenya's Next President.

The son of Kenya’s first post-independence president, Jomo Kenyatta, took 50.07 percent of votes cast in the March 4 election, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Chairman Issack Hassan told reporters today in the capital, Nairobi. Raila Odinga, the outgoing prime minister, got 43.3 percent, he said.
Odinga “does not believe that the result the IEBC announced reflected the will of the people,” Salim Lone, his adviser, said in an e-mailed response to questions today. “He will challenge the IEBC verdict in court.”
By electing Kenyatta, 51, Kenya becomes the second nation to have a sitting president facing indictment by the International Criminal Court. Sudan’s Umar al-Bashir has refused to cooperate with The Hague-based court and is under an arrest warrant for genocide and war crimes in the western region of Darfur.
 

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on Saturday, March 9, 2013