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Violence erupts in Kenya after losing candidate charges presidential election 'hacked'
« on: August 10, 2017, 05:07:03 pm »
Violence erupts in Kenya after losing candidate charges presidential election 'hacked'
USA Today, Aug 9, 2017

NAIROBI, Kenya — At least three people were killed as violent protests broke out Wednesday after the losing presidential candidate charged that Tuesday's election results were hacked to hand a victory to incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta.

Supporters of  Raila Odinga in this capital city — mainly its huge slums — burned tires, smashed shacks, blocked roads and threw stones at police, yelling, "no Raila, no peace.

Two protesters were shot and killed by police in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, local police confirmed. In the Kisii region in western Kenya, a police officer fatally shot a man outside a polling center. Police commander Abdi Hassan said the officer, who was manning the election office, is in custody.

More:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/08/09/kenya-election/551492001/


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Re: Violence erupts in Kenya after losing candidate charges presidential election 'hacked'
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2017, 05:10:25 pm »
Obama's cousin lost again ...





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Re: Violence erupts in Kenya after losing candidate charges presidential election 'hacked'
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2017, 05:17:34 pm »
Couldn't Obama legally run for President there?
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Re: Violence erupts in Kenya after losing candidate charges presidential election 'hacked'
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2017, 05:19:27 pm »
The violence was predictable; it seems to boil down to tribal differences.

Still, Kenya and neighboring Tanzania seem to be much better off than most of their neighbors. This is a pain, Kenya has to go through periodically, like every presidential election.
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Re: Violence erupts in Kenya after losing candidate charges presidential election 'hacked'
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2017, 05:20:21 pm »
Africa Wins Again.
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Re: Violence erupts in Kenya after losing candidate charges presidential election 'hacked'
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2017, 05:23:13 pm »
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Re: Violence erupts in Kenya after losing candidate charges presidential election 'hacked'
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2017, 05:51:15 pm »
Got a pastor friend from Kenya over here right now visiting. Asked him how things were there, he said good 'but it's election time' and he was rightfully worried about violence. Fortunately his town is far from it.
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Re: Violence erupts in Kenya after losing candidate charges presidential election 'hacked'
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2017, 05:57:49 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on August 10, 2017, 05:51:15 pm
Got a pastor friend from Kenya over here right now visiting. Asked him how things were there, he said good 'but it's election time' and he was rightfully worried about violence. Fortunately his town is far from it.

When Senator Obama was backing Odinga in 2008, the election was supposedly crooked but not clearly "hacked," whereas the electorate definitely did get hacked (i.e., in a mass murder of thousands of Odinga's opponents by machetes wielded by Obama's Luo tribe kinsmen).   Sounds like the stuff that Community Organizers do, doesn't it?
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