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Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) recently cleared Deputy President William Ruto to run for the country’s presidency in the upcoming election this August.
Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) recently cleared Deputy President William Ruto to run for the country’s presidency in the upcoming election this August. He is considered an early frontrunner.
The commission also declared veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga as a candidate. Odinga is the leader of the Azimio la Umoja one Kenya coalition.
The election scene in Kenya is becoming active. The present incumbent President Kenyatta, having completed two terms as president, is constitutionally ineligible to contest.
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Kenyan elections have seen violent outbreaks with thousands killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in election cycles since 2007. The advent of multi-party democracy in Kenya in 1992 led to ethnicization. Inter-ethnic alliances were formed and fell apart. In the absence of parties based on a consistent political ideology, tribal identities and manipulation of ethnic grievances remain the primary basis of political mobilisation.
