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ICC deploys team to record any violence at the 2022 presidential election

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“After Kenyatta: the never-ending battle to take State House”

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After Kenyatta: the never-ending battle to take State House

The handshake between former opposition leader Raila Odinga and newly re-elected president Uhuru Kenyatta got the campaign to succeed Kenyatta off to a premature start. Odinga has been battling since then against William Ruto, who has himself been abandoned by the head of state. The seemingly never-ending campaign for the presidential elections, which are due to take place on 9 August 2022, has crystalised around the Building Bridges Initiative, a constitutional referendum. [...]

In preparation for what is expected to be a tense election campaign, International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan has dispatched a legal team to Nairobi to gather potential proof of election violence. [...] (359 words)

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Fred Matiang'i
Hilary Mutyambai
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Joshua Sang
Karim Khan
Kenya National Human Rights Commission
Luis Moreno Ocampo
Maria Mabinty Kamara
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Orange Democratic Movement
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Philip Kameru
Raila Odinga
Uhuru Kenyatta
United Democratic Alliance
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Security agencies under pressure from Al-Shabaab ahead of elections

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Kenyan deputy president William Ruto on the campaign trail. © @WilliamsRuto/Twitter

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Ruto complains of Kenyatta interfering with his foreign backers

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Odinga seeks election support from Abuja and Pretoria

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Odinga's campaign short on bankrollers

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Presidential candidate Raila Odinga. © Facebook/Raila.Odinga

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Ex-spy Ngirici uses media empire to sit on presidential campaign fence

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Kenyatta's business friends muscle in on Odinga's campaign

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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. © Daniel Irungu/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

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