Clinton pledges US support to avoid bloodshed at Kenyan polls
Source: Reuters
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton urged Kenya on Saturday to hold free and fair elections and be a role model for Africa, underlining the need to avoid the bloodshed suffered during the last vote five years ago.
The general election slated for next March will be the first since a disputed poll in 2007 that set off a politically based ethnic slaughter in which more than 1,200 people were killed.
Clinton met President Mwai Kibaki, who is barred by law from seeking a third term, and Raila Odinga, the prime minister, who leads in opinion polls in the race to replace him.
The two were the main rivals in the disputed presidential poll, when then opposition leader Odinga accused Kibaki of stealing the vote.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/04/clinton-kenya-elections-president-kibaki
Uh oh, expect viral emails with the conspiracy theory about Odinga being Obama's cousin to start flying. Snopes takes down that wingnuttery: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/kenya.asp
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