Deadly Rioting Over Kenyan Election Results

DANA HUGHES, ABC News

Thousands of angry Kenyans waving branches and weilding machetes battled police and marched in the streets of the capital and other cities today to protest what they claim was a rigged election giving President Mwai Kibaki a second term.

The protests threatened to erupt in wide spread tribal violence and neither side was backing down.

Kibaki’s challenger, Raila Odinga, is refusing to concede the election. He stated yesterday that he would be conducting a shadow inauguration today in Uhuru park in downtown Nairobi, but canceled those plans after the government declared that it would be tantamount to a coup. Odinga announced instead that he would lead a million people in a mass, peaceful demonstration on Thursday.

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