Kenyan General Election of 2007
Mwai Kibaki was declared winner over Raila Odinga amid rigging claims, triggering violence that killed over a thousand people.
Overview
Opinion polls and early results in the December 27, 2007 election suggested a lead for opposition leader Raila Odinga, but the electoral commission declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner, and he was sworn in hastily the same evening. Accusations of rigging set off weeks of violence, much of it along ethnic lines, in which more than a thousand people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Mediation led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan produced a power-sharing accord in February 2008 that made Odinga prime minister. The crisis drove reforms culminating in the 2010 constitution and led to International Criminal Court cases that later collapsed.
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