Presidential results 2022 Kenya live

"It is clear that elections are won at the polling stations so once the results are declared here they are treated as final.So whatever outcome that will ...

But corruption has remained endemic and the effects of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the ongoing drought have exacerbated already glaring inequalities and dominated the campaign. "I hope this time it will be better," he pleaded from Kibera, a huge slum in Nairobi. Of the 22.1 million voters, just over half had cast their ballots by 4:00 p.m. (13:00 GMT). But the country feared on Wednesday that it would once again be caught up in a familiar post-election saga, with every election since 2002 contested in this East African country considered a democratic anchor in the region. In 2017, turnout was close to 80%. But the August 2017 presidential election was invalidated by the courts for "irregularities" and then rescheduled, denting the reputation of the IEBC. The second, William Ruto, a 55-year-old sulphurous businessman, a Kalenjin who is running in opposition to the "dynasties" embodied by Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Odinga, heirs of two families at the heart of Kenyan politics since independence in 1963.