Kenya Tensions Rising Ahead of 2017 Presidential Election

Tensions around next year’s presidential poll are heating up in Kenya. A special sitting of parliament to debate changes to the electoral law ended with a fist fight on the House floor. With fewer than eight months until the general election, Kenyan politicians are wrangling over how the electoral commission should carry out the process. In September, members of parliament from both sides of the political divide passed electoral reforms, following weeks of protests demanding the...

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