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Violence in Kenya after poll
29/12/2007 17:14 - (SA)
Elizabeth A Kennedy
Nairobi - Hundreds of people stoned cars and rival ethnic groups fought in a sprawling Nairobi slum on Saturday amid tensions over delayed results from the presidential election, witnesses said.
Millionaire opposition candidate Raila Odinga, who cast himself as a champion of the poor, appears poised to win the race, the closest in Kenya's history.
But only partial and unofficial tallies have been released from Thursday's vote.
In the Kibera slum, Odinga's main constituency, young men with machetes were running through the maze of potholed tracks and ramshackle dwellings. People set up makeshift roadblocks.
About 35km outside Nairobi, hundreds of people were massed along a main highway.
"They are looting houses and stoning cars," said Irungu Wakogi, a witness said by telephone.
The race pits President Mwai Kibaki against his former ally, Odinga, and marks the first time an incumbent has faced a credible challenge in Kenya's four decades of independence from Britain.
- AP
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