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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By George Obulutsa and Ayenat Mersie

Kenyans anxious for news on next president, two days after tight vote

Officials from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) are surrounded by political candidates from various parties and their agents after the general election, at the St. Teresa Girls Secondary School tallying centre near Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya August 11, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Kenyans crowded round radios and televisions on Thursday, increasingly anxious for news of who their next president might be, two days after voting in an election ended.

The East African country's election commission (IEBC) has neither released a running tally of results nor said when it plans to announce the winner, but unofficial and sometimes conflicting media counts show a nail-bitingly close race.

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