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Kenya's Supreme Court nullified the August 8 reelection of President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday and ordered new polls be held (The East African) in sixty days following a petition by opposition candidate Raila Odinga. The electoral commission claimed Kenyatta won with 54 percent of the vote (WaPo); Odinga accused the commission of irregularities (AP) in …
The Kenyan Supreme Court has overturned the election of the Kenyan president and ordered another election within 60 days. The general basis of the ruling was not that there was malfeasance and rigging but a sufficient breach of form and protocol. This was a brave ruling given the grounds it based it historical decision. The …
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The quick acceptance by the international election observers of the outcome of the vote was the operation of low expectation syndrome for anything African. Again even Africans suffer from similar syndrome. The electoral and judicial development is a welcome one for Africa and hopefully for the rest of the world. Do not support what you …
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Migrants are leaving in droves - and we're screwedIt turns out the government has not been counting migrants properly.But it's worse than that. It hasn't actually been counting at all - it's been guessing.And, just like any ignorant twit down the pub who reckons we're overrun on the basis of no evidence at all, the …
On the morning of Saturday, August 26, 2017, bulldozers accompanied by a horde of armed security operatives, acting on the orders of the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, stormed Eke-Ukwu Owerri Market, and forcefully evicted the traders, demolished their shops and destroyed wares worth millions of naira. Security operatives, specifically, military men from the 34 …
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