Kenyatta secures tight victory in Kenya

The official election results in Kenya have finally been announced, and Uhuru Kenyatta managed to win the first poll round outright with a narrow 50.7 percent. But the main opponent, PM Raila Odinga, is filing a vote rigging complaint to the courts.

The official election results in Kenya have finally been announced, and Uhuru Kenyatta managed to win the first poll round outright with a narrow 50.7 percent. But the main opponent, PM Raila Odinga, is filing a vote rigging complaint to the courts.

Issack Hassan, the leader of Kenya's independent electoral commission, this afternoon formally declared Mr Kenyatta "the duly elected president of the Republic of Kenya." The electoral commission has kept the Kenyan people waiting in suspense for a week, after technical problems time after time delayed the counting process. But Mr Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding President Jomo Kenyatta, most of the time has had a lead in the count.