Sunday Times

Big yes to no vote

- By Yasuyoshi Chiba

Supporters of Kenya’s opposition National Super Alliance carry a banner during a political rally in Kisumu on Friday. Kisumu, in western Kenya, is one of the Nasa coalition’s stronghold­s. Kenyans are due to go to the polls on Thursday in a new election ordered by the country’s supreme court. But the coalition has vowed to boycott the election over unhappines­s with the election commission and the ruling party, which won the August 8 vote. The court nullified the outcome after allegation­s of widespread irregulari­ties in the electronic transmissi­on of voting results, overseen by the Independen­t Electoral and Boundaries Commission.

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