Kenyatta declared winner of new vote

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday was declared the overwhelming winner of a rerun election boycotted by Kenya’s main opposition leader, collecting 98 per cent of the vote but also exposing the divisions roiling this East African country.

While Kenyatta’s backers celebrated his re-election, angry supporters of his rival, Raila Odinga, skirmished with police in Nairobi slums and burned tires in Kisumu.

Kenya’s election commission said the turnout of registered voters in the Oct. 26 election was about 40 per cent, compared with roughly twice that in August balloting that was nullified because of “irregularities and illegalities.”