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Article: Anatomy of the crisis: Andrea Bohnstedt, our correspondent in Nairobi, covered the elections and their aftermath. Here she gives the background to the conflict and discusses the economic impact on Kenya and beyond.(Kenya)
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- African Business
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- February 1, 2008
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Was the election rigged? The election results were always going to be tight--this much had already been clear from the opinion polls in the weeks and months preceding the elections.
However, the fallout of the elections in Kenya had caught analysts on the wrong foot.
The largely quiet and peaceful voting day then contrasted sharply with the delays in the vote counting on Saturday and Sunday, 29 and 30 December, and increasingly tense circumstances not just at the media centre of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK), but across the country. On Saturday, the ECK chairman Samuel Kivuiti had stated openly that a significant number of ECK officers had not ...