Kenyans head to the polls today to select the successor to President Uhuru Kenyatta.
With top presidential candidates Raila Odinga and William Ruto pledging to address the country’s gaping inequality.
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There are four candidates competing for Kenya’s top position:
🔸 William Ruto
🔸 Raila Odinga
🔸 George Wajackoyah
🔸 David Mwaure
Ruto and Odinga are the leading candidates to become the country’s fifth president.
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So how does the Kenyan election work?
Our explainer tells you what you need to know about the country's parties, leaders and key election issues ⤵️
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“I look forward to our victorious day.”
Polls have opened in Kenya’s election, with William Ruto, one of two top candidates running to replace President Kenyatta, casting his vote.
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In Kenya, church leaders are supposed to stay out of party politics, but during this week’s presidential election preachers and prayers are playing a role ⤵️
President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived to cast his vote, with today’s presidential election largely seen as a referendum on his 10 years of leadership.
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Besides the presidential election, Kenyans will also go to the polls to vote in governors, Members of the National Assembly, senators and Members of the County Assembly.
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Raila Odinga, who is running for the presidency for the fifth time, has cast his vote.
The 77 year old was greeted by supporters as he arrived at a primary school turned polling station in Kibera, Kenya’s largest slum.
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#KenyaDecides2022
Kenya's electorate are voting in #KenyaDecides2022 for lawmakers and a new president - with little confidence the next gov't will deliver change from deep-rooted corruption and spiking food prices ⤵️
— in pictures aje.io/mw67pd
Interesting things are happening in Kenya’s democracy. Today's August 9 election is not one of them.
— #AJOpinion by @Nanjala1 ⤵️ aje.io/j8o6vz
@Nanjala1 “There is so much poverty in this country, our youths are turning to crime.”
Eric Moracha, a voter in Nairobi, said he particularly likes Raila Odinga’s plan to give $50 (6000 KSh) per month to two million poor and vulnerable households.
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@Nanjala1 As Kenyans vote in #KenyaDecides2022, here's a look at how politicians are paying influencers to push disinformation and dangerous propaganda online ⤵️
📺 Watch full clip: aje.io/0mcr4a [via @AJListeningPost]
Kenya’s election commission said voter turnout will probably be around 60 percent.
Turnout in the last election in 2017 was nearly 80 percent.
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