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NAIROBI, March 9 (Reuters) – The son of Kenya’s founding
president, Uhuru Kenyatta, won a presidential election with a
slim margin of 50.03 percent of votes cast, provisional figures
displayed by the election commission on a screen showed on
Saturday.
Kenyatta, who faces international charges of crimes against
humanity, secured 6,173,433 votes out of a total of 12,338,667
ballots cast, indicating that he had secured the more than 50
percent of votes needed for a first round win.
(Reporting by George Obulutsa and James Macharia; Writing by
Edmund Blair)
