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Economy, political permutations at centre of Kenyan election

A woman casts her ballot at the Kibera primary school in Nairobi [Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo]

Nairobi, Kenya – Tired of waiting for her daughter to return from voting, Betty Khamayo picked up her eleven-month-old grandson and got into a matatu, a commercial bus just outside her home in Kwanagware on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

The matatu took her to a primary school in Kibera, 8km (5 miles) away, the same polling unit that frontline presidential candidate Raila Odinga had voted earlier in the day.

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