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| Kenya official urges vote inquiry | |
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| Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako has called for an independent investigation into vote results that led to President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election. | Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako has called for an independent investigation into vote results that led to President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election. |
| Mr Wako said on national television that "a proper tally of the valid certificates returned and confirmed should be undertaken immediately". | Mr Wako said on national television that "a proper tally of the valid certificates returned and confirmed should be undertaken immediately". |
| His call came as police fired tear gas and water cannon at crowds in Nairobi. | |
| More than 300 people have been killed and at least 70,000 driven from their homes across Kenya since Sunday. | More than 300 people have been killed and at least 70,000 driven from their homes across Kenya since Sunday. |
| The violence was triggered by claims of vote rigging in the 27 December presidential election. | The violence was triggered by claims of vote rigging in the 27 December presidential election. |
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| Police dispersed thousands of opposition supporters on Thursday as they tried to hold a banned rally in the Kenyan capital's Uhuru Park. | |
| Organisers called off the event and told reporters the rally would be held next Tuesday instead. | |
| The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has claimed its leader Raila Odinga is the "people's president" and the true winner of last week's poll. | The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has claimed its leader Raila Odinga is the "people's president" and the true winner of last week's poll. |
| Samuel Kivuitu, head of Kenya's election commission, told the BBC on Wednesday he could not say for sure if Mr Kibaki had won the poll fairly. | Samuel Kivuitu, head of Kenya's election commission, told the BBC on Wednesday he could not say for sure if Mr Kibaki had won the poll fairly. |
| South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has flown in to try to mediate in the crisis. | |
| The latest disorder prompted the Nairobi Stock Exchange to shut | |
| The Nobel laureate was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying: "This is a country that has been held up as a model of stability. This picture has been shattered." | |
| The latest disorder prompted the Nairobi Stock Exchange to close barely an hour after opening. | |
| There were also running battles between police and youths in the coastal city of Mombasa. | |
| Supporters of President Kibaki (a member of Kenya's predominant Kikuyu tribe) and Mr Odinga (from the Luo community) have accused each other of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the post-poll unrest. | |
| Perhaps the most shocking of the violence in the past week was the torching on Tuesday of a church at Eldoret, in western Kenya's Rift Valley, where at least 30 (mainly Kikuyu) people were burnt alive. | |
| Mr Kibaki invited all MPs to crisis talks at state house on Wednesday but Mr Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement refused and demanded the president quit. |