A Maasai tribeswoman votes at a polling station set up in a primary school in Kisamis Thomas Mukoya/ReutersVoting has started in Kenya’s election in a tense atmosphere with the opposition accusing the incumbent of trying to rig the vote. Raila Odinga, 72, is seeking to unseat President Uhuru Kenyatta, 55, in his fifth tilt at the presidency while their respective coalitions vie to win 1,880 seats in parliament, the senate and regional councils. People queued overnight to cast their votes and by 9am long lines stretched out of polling stations and around the block in most urban centres. A massive security operation kept the peace in most areas but in some parts of Nairobi there were protests over polling stations failing to open which resulted in people blocking roads with tyres. In Kibera township in Nairobi, an…

Source: The Times August 08, 2017 08:00 UTC