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A man throws a stone towards police in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, as people block roads with stones to protest in support of Kenyan opposition leader and presidential candidate Raila Odinga. Brian Inganga/AP

Two shot dead in protests over disputed Kenyan election

Human Rights Watch urged police to show restraint in the face of protests.

TWO PEOPLE HAVE been shot dead in Kenya in angry opposition protests which flared up again after the hotly disputed election victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Protests and running battles with police broke out in Nairobi slums after a night of anger in opposition strongholds against an election that losing candidate Raila Odinga claims was massively rigged.

East Africa’s richest economy was gripped by uncertainty a decade after a disputed 2007 election which led to two months of ethno-political violence that left 1,100 dead and 600,000 displaced.

All eyes will now turn to Odinga, and his reaction to the loss which he claimed was a result of massive rigging of Tuesday’s election, which his party denounced as a “charade” and a “disaster”.

Odinga has yet to speak after the results were announced, but almost immediate protests erupted last night in his strongholds in western Kisumu county and poor areas of Nairobi, with gunshots ringing out and fires lit in the streets.

“We have one person killed and four others admitted in hospital with gunshot injuries,” said Dr Ojwang Lusi, the regional health chief in western Kisumu county.

“My brother was shot and yet he was just standing outside our house where people were demonstrating now he has a bullet injury on the hip,” said Truphena Achieng, at a Kisumu hospital.

In the southwestern town of Siaya, a police officer speaking on condition of anonymity said a man had been shot dead in protests, but “we have not managed to collect the body… because of resistance from protesters.”

Meanwhile protests flared up again this morning, with police firing teargas and engaging in running battles with demonstrators in the capital’s Mathare and Kibera slums, according to AFP reporters.

In Kisumu protesters blocked major highways around the city.

Human Rights Watch urged police to show restraint in the face of protests.

“With growing reports of demonstrations and heavy gunfire in some areas, it is important for security forces to work to deescalate – not escalate – the violence,” said Otsieno Namwaya, Africa researcher at HRW.

“The police should not use teargas or live ammunition simply because they consider a gathering unlawful.”

© – AFP 2017

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    Mute Dermot Ryan
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    Jul 21st 2014, 11:57 AM

    Horse it into them !

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    Mute Dannster
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:03 PM

    giddy up

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    Mute George Grey
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:08 PM

    So we are to believe that McDonald’s with all their stringent controls in place, had no idea what was happening. Somehow I doubt it. More a case of treating the Asian market as second class citizens. The same too with KFC. Both these companies are the lowest of the low when it comes to workers wages and rights. The customer is regarded as much the same. And of course their food is chemically rotton, chickens and beef pumped up to the eyeballs with fatteners and nasty steroids. Food over the date……ah sure what the hell. .. it’s o lynch’s the general public…In China… consuming it!

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    Mute Richard Cynical
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:20 PM

    I’m sure most customers will have gone off to eat somewhere else

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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:25 PM

    If they really wanted meat they wouldn’t be going in there to begin with.

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    Mute Lorraine Cullinane ✨
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:52 PM

    I dunno how anyone eats KFC anyways, google how they make their chicken and think twice next time wen u thinkin bout eating it!

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    Mute Simon Barnes
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:55 PM

    Google how any food is made/processed/grown. you’d think none of us would eat anything.

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    Mute Richard Cynical
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:57 PM

    Yeah KFC is definitely the worst of them, but there gravy is savage. If you are in the right food hall I suggest you get macdonald chips burger king double whopper and KFC gravy, I call it the heart attack.

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    Jul 21st 2014, 11:56 AM

    The Chinese.. A great bunch of lads

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    Mute TOP CAT
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:12 PM

    Sure just add curry to it and you wouldn’t know what kinda meat is in it..
    That’s how they roll in my local Chinese. ..

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    Mute Glen
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:13 PM

    You just can’t beat a mystery curry !

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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:49 PM

    Disgusting but after a feed of pints, I’m all over that ‘sh*t’.

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    Mute Glen
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:02 PM

    That’s cat… Seriously it’s ruff !!

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    Mute Mick Jordan
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:46 PM

    Bord Bia should get their oar in there. Big market for Irish Beef.

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    Mute SeekingUniverslTruth
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    Jul 21st 2014, 11:59 AM

    It’s never been a better time to go vegie, why spend €8 on shite when for much the same price you can have an asian meal.

    Asian vegetarian food is awesome.

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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:16 PM

    Must be “fowl” play!!

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    Mute Simon Barnes
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:58 PM

    ha. you go eat your GM and pestercied cover veg. And don’t tell me you only eat organic veg, I’ve seen plenty of documentary;s on how some food sellers take shop produce and roll it in compost to make it look fresh organically grown.

    The only way you know what your eating is to grow or rear it yourself

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    Jul 21st 2014, 1:02 PM

    I’m surprised mc Donald’s use meat, that’s re assuring

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    Mute Niall Mullins
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    Jul 21st 2014, 1:21 PM

    You gotta love their meatballs though. They really are the dogs bollox.

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    Mute Margaret Doyle Hanley
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:28 PM

    It’s good to actually think about what fast food restaurants say in their adds + do a little research.
    For example, ‘Freshly prepared food ‘ does not mean fresh food. It means simply that the food is only put into it’s box/bag on the day you buy it or maybe it’s baked in-store on the day but where did it come from+how long did the trip take?
    ’100%.beef’ usually means it’s calves liver as that is 100% beef.

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    Mute SeekingUniverslTruth
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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:03 PM

    out of date burgers and formaldehyde in their beer.

    BBQ anyone?

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    Jul 21st 2014, 8:51 PM

    At least formaldahyde is only carcinogenic …. I’ll be over ..as long as the burgers are G.M. free !

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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:59 PM

    Glad I avoided these “restaurants” in China.

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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:30 PM

    Hus in charge at Husi!

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    Jul 21st 2014, 5:15 PM

    No-one knows Hus in charge; it’s a secret. But Hus going to let the cat out of the bag. And Hus to say he shouldn’t ?
    Don’t know why I got involved with this.

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    Jul 21st 2014, 12:56 PM

    I’d be surprised if it was really meat and chicken that was delivered forget the expiry date

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    Jul 21st 2014, 1:40 PM

    Neigh neigh and trice neigh ….

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    Jul 22nd 2014, 4:41 AM

    China’s worried about expired beef coming into their country? What a joke! Look what they export. CRAP! Toys with lead. Food with toxins. Don’t know where to begin.

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