Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga and the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, cast their vote during the presidential election. About half of eligible voters are under 35 and levels of registration of younger voters has been reported as high. Overall, ethnicity is the best predictor of vote choice, but there are important variations in other social categories. The presidential candidates’ fathers, Jomo Kenyatta and Jaramogi Odinga, went from allies in the struggle for independence from Britain to bitter rivals. “If we lose, then we will wait for our leader Raila [Odinga] to speak.

Source: The Guardian August 08, 2017 06:51 UTC