Uhuru Kenyatta 'wins vote for Kenya Presidential Election

Kenya's Deputy Prime Abbot Uhuru Kenyatta appears to accept won the presidential acclamation by the tightest of margins, conditional after-effects indicate.

After all the votes were counted he had polled 50.03% of the vote, 4,109 votes over the beginning appropriate for absolute victory.

The official aftereffect is not accepted afore 11:00 on Saturday (08:00 GMT).

Rival applicant Raila Odinga is set to book a acknowledged claiming if he loses.

One of Mr Odinga's aides said the applicant had "no intention" of acceptance defeat.

Salim Lone told the Daily Nation newspaper: "The akin of the failures in the arrangement makes it actual difficult to accept it was a aboveboard result, and if Uhuru is declared president, Raila will go to court."

Both candidates accept complained of irregularities during the advance of the count, back Monday's election.

Technical glitches
Mr Kenyatta won 6,173,433 votes out of a absolute of 12,338,667, able-bodied advanced of the prime minister, who polled 5,340,546 - or 43.28% of the vote.

Mr Kenyatta's Jubilee Coalition affair said it was "proud and honoured for the trust" bestowed on it, abacus that it had taken a bulletin to the humans and that "we are beholden to the humans of Kenya for accepting this message".

Countries including the US and UK accept hinted that his acclamation as admiral would accept after-effects for their relations with the Nairobi government - comments which accept been absolved in Nairobi as exceptionable adopted arrest in calm matters.

Kenya's new cyberbanking voting arrangement was advised to annihilate the adventitious of vote-rigging and with it any accident of a echo of the post-poll abandon of 2007.

But the calculation has been bedeviled with abstruse glitches, including a programming absurdity that led to the amount of alone votes getting assorted by a agency of eight. By Wednesday, the cyberbanking arrangement was alone and the calculation restarted by hand.

According to Kenya's acclamation rules, the champ needs to poll added than 50% of the vote to abstain a additional annular run-off next month.

If the acclamation agency confirms that Mr Kenyatta has beyond the 50% beginning by such a attenuated margin, again Mr Odinga's admiral say he will claiming the outcome.

The prime minister's Cord accord had beforehand complained that votes from 11 constituencies were missing, in aftereffect abrogation him added than 250,000 votes short.

Both men anesthetized a additional action bare for achievement - at atomic 25% of the vote in added than bisected of the 47 counties.

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Raila Odinga says Kenya Election vote 'doctored'

 

The acclamation calculation in Kenya's presidential elections has been rigged, says Kalonzo Musyoka, the active acquaintance of Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

"We accept affirmation the after-effects we accept accustomed accept been doctored," he said.

He said the vote calculation should be chock-full but added that his comments were not a alarm for protest.

Mr Odinga has been abaft abaft his rival, Uhuru Kenyatta. There accept been astringent delays in counting as the cyberbanking arrangement has crashed.


The believability of the calculation is acute to alienated added bloodshed, our contributor says.

More than 1,000 humans were dead in the abandon which bankrupt out in 2007-08 afterwards Mr Odinga claimed he had been cheated of achievement by supporters of Admiral Mwai Kibaki, who is dispatch down afterwards two agreement in office.

Mr Kenyatta, who backed Mr Kibaki, is due to angle balloon at the International Criminal Court (ICC) next month, accused of organising attacks on associates of indigenous groups apparent as supporters of Mr Odinga. He denies the charges.

Fall in alone ballots

"We as a affiliation yield the position the civic vote-tallying activity lacks candor and has to be chock-full and re-started application primary abstracts from the polling stations," Mr Musyoka said on Thursday.

"It is not a alarm to accumulation action. We are committed as a affiliation to the assumption of the aphorism of law."

Following glitches with hi-tech voting and counting systems beforehand this week, the vote-tallying activity was started afresh from scratch, and by hand, on Wednesday.

Results were alone getting appear afterwards the ballots had been physically delivered to acclamation address in the capital, rather than getting filed electronically.

The latest abstracts announce Mr Kenyatta has maintained his advance over Mr Odinga, with 2.5m (53%) votes to 1.9m (42%) - as originally indicated.

However, the new abstracts appearance that the amount of alone ballots, which has been a above issue, has acutely appear down.

In the antecedent count, some 300,000 votes - about 6% - were butterfingers for assorted reasons.

This amount has now appear down to about 40,000. While the acumen for the bead charcoal unclear, some assemblage said that acclamation admiral were getting too austere aboriginal time round.

The acceptable applicant have to get added than 50% of the absolute votes casting and at atomic 25% of votes in bisected of the 47 counties - the closing was a claim alien in the new architecture to accomplish abiding the new admiral wins with advanced abutment rather than alone with the abetment of voters in his bounded and indigenous strongholds.

If there is no bright winner, a additional annular of voting will yield place, apparently on 11 April.


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Africa Fights Climate Change

 

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is hosting the fourth affair of the Board of Program Directors of the Altitude for Development in Africa Action (Clim-Dev) on March 6 and 7 in Tunis.

The high-level affair marks a axis point in Africa's action adjoin altitude change, decidedly in Africa itself. In the advance of this meeting, the Clim-Dev Special Armamentarium (CDSF) “ an ad hoc investment armamentarium set abreast to accounts altitude change activities in Africa “becomes operational this year. In accession to the Armamentarium assets and the achievability of disseminating able-bodied and applicable statistical abstracts on altitude and its change in Africa, CDSF will accounts accurate operations on the ground. Currently, 14 projects are getting advised beneath the Altitude for Development action in Africa.

Alongside AfDB Managers and Bank experts, some 30 added assembly are aswell accepted to participate in the Tunis meeting, apery the African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), African Regional Economic Communities (RICs), as able-bodied as the donor association and civilian association organizations. AUC Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, Tumusiime Rhoda Peace, Fatima Denton, Officer-in-charge of altitude change adjustment programs in Africa undertaken by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and Abdirahman Beileh, Director of the AfDB's Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department, will aswell be in attendance.

Established in 2009 beneath the collective advocacy of AfDB, AUC and UNECA, the Clim-Dev Africa Action was launched in 2012. Its antecedent assets accept been added added by contributions fabricated by African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP) countries in February 2013. The administration of the Clim-Dev Special Armamentarium has been entrusted to African Development Bank. Within the Bank, Clim-Dev Africa is managed by the Department of Agriculture and Agro-Industry (OSAN).


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Robert Mugabe has gold bill minted to bless his 89th altogether in poverty-stricken Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is one of the atomic country's on Earth, but acutely autocrat Robert Mugabe doesn't assume to affliction on his 89th birthday.
  
             Minted: Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe had the coins made to celebrate his 89th birthday

The admiral acclaimed it by immortalising himself in afresh minted gold bill and captivated a abundant affair with a behemothic cake.

Guests, including his wife, aboriginal adult Grace, tucked into the four-tier amusement fabricated in his honour at the accompaniment abode afore he gave a acknowledgment speech.

His affair are doubtable of getting complex in the afterlife of the 12-year-old son of a bounded official who is adherent of the action Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

Christpowers Maisiri was austere to afterlife while sleeping in a hut with his brothers endure weekend in Headlands district, 110 afar east of Harare.

Robert Mugabe celebrates with his wife Grace, right, as they have a slice from the four-tier cake at the party in Harare

Tsvangirai and Mugabe were affected into a power-sharing government in 2009 and will resume their animosity in elections accepted about July.

The MDC bound abhorrent Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, adage the declared killers were afterwards the boy's father, Shepherd.

ZANU-PF denied killing the boy and accused the MDC of aggravating to fan pre-election tensions in the southern African state.

"ZANU-PF is beneath siege, 'Tsvangirai said while acclamation mourners and supporters accessory the burying in Headlands, a tobacco-growing district.

'They are in a bend and this is a atrocious act from a affair that is accident power.'

Fighting aback tears, Shepherd Maisiri said he had been subjected to abandon and browbeating from ZANU-PF supporters back 2000. His son had been built-in in the backcountry because his parents had to abscond from opponents, he said.

Tsvangirai said he had apparent Mugabe pictures of the broiled charcoal of the boy during a chiffonier affair on Tuesday and that the admiral had 'shrunk' in atheism and ordered a abounding investigation.

Tsvangirai, above barter abutment baton was affected to abdicate a presidential run-off chase in 2008 afterwards 200 of his supporters died in political abandon abhorrent on ZANU-PF members.

'We are aching but not intimidated. This has to end, starting with the arrest of the humans who committed this abhorrent crime,' said Tsvangirai.

He said he could not vouch for Mugabe's artlessness if calling for peaceful elections.

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African leaders assurance DR Congo accord deal

 

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, witnessed the signing on Sunday at the African Union's address in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The presidents of the DRC, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia either abounding or delegated the ability to assurance the deal.

According to the UN, the "peace framework agreement" could advance to the conception of a appropriate UN activity army in eastern DRC to activity insubordinate groups and renew political efforts.

But afterwards about two decades of war, expectations are low.

"I anticipate it would be amiss to accept too abundant expectations because the bearings actuality is actual difficult," Alex Queval, arch of the UN mission in North Kivu, told Al Jazeera. "The battle has been traveling on for at atomic 19 years, so it's not traveling to be apparent overnight, but I absolutely anticipate that this access can be a new beginning."

Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri, advertisement from the Mugunga affected for internally displaced bodies alfresco Goma, said humans there "really achievement this [agreement] is the alpha of something."

Mugunga is host to tens of bags of Congolese humans who had to abscond their homes afterward abandon in the east in November 2012.

Despite the signing on Sunday, problems accept with the accordance process, she said.

"We still dont apperceive what affectionate of admiral a appropriate UN agent would accept [and] whether those signing will accept a apparatus administering whether they will accept by what they active up for," she said.

Rebel movements

The DRC's mineral-rich east has been ravaged by abundant armed groups, with new insubordinate movements spawned on a approved basis, some of them with abetment from neighbouring countries.

The latest billow in abandon was in 2012 and culminated in the insubordinate March 23 Movement (M23) force briefly abduction the key boondocks of Goma endure November.

M23, which was not arrive to Sunday's meeting, was founded by above fighters of an ethnic-Tutsi insubordinate accumulation whose associates were chip into the approved army beneath a accordance accord whose acceding they affirmation were never absolutely delivered.

The group's capital appeal now is the abounding accomplishing of a accordance accord active on March 23, 2009.

M23 controls allotment of the Rutshuru region, an ambiguous but abundant area that lies in mineral-rich North Kivu arena and borders on Rwanda and Uganda.

Several of its leaders accept been hit by UN sanctions over declared atrocities. The accumulation has been accused of raping women and girls, application adolescent soldiers and killing civilians.

Failed attempts

Peace talks accept been captivated in Uganda, but so far accept fabricated little headway.

MONUSCO, the peacekeeping mission already deployed in DRC, is one of the UN's biggest.

It currently has about 17,000 troops and, beneath its Security Council mandate, is accustomed to accept up to 19,800.

The UN wants to acclimate MONUSCO with the accession of a 2,500-strong activity army to accouterment the armed groups that accept bedeviled the resource-rich region.

A aboriginal attack to assurance the acceding endure ages was alleged off over procedural concerns, not over the agreeable of the agreement, the UN said.

Moshiri said civilian association groups accept complained that "they're not complex in Sunday's agreement, and that there is no accurate activity plan to accordance with the basis causes of the conflict, which are mainly abjection and corruption".

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M23's Makenga and Runiga factions 'clash'

The abandon was affiliated to a power-struggle amid M23 political baton Jean-Marie Runiga and aggressive arch Sultani Makenga, the sources said.

On Sunday, bounded leaders active a UN-brokered accordance to end battle in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

About 80,000 humans accept been displaced in angry aback May 2012.

The M23 launched a apostasy adjoin the DR Congo government, briefly abduction Goma, the capital city-limits in the east, in November.

Both Rwanda and Uganda acerb abjure claims they aback the rebels.

The BBC's Ignatius Bahizi letters from neighbouring Uganda that the battling M23 factions exchanged battery in the boondocks of Rutshuru, 70km (43 miles) arctic of Goma.

The M23 denied that it was hit by dissent, our anchorman says.

It abhorrent the abandon on the FDLR insubordinate group, which is fabricated up of Rwandans accused of captivation in the 1994 genocide that larboard about 800,000 humans dead, he says.

The M23 is complex in abstracted accordance talks with the DR Congo government in Uganda.

In January, it declared a unilateral ceasefire.

In Ethiopia on Sunday, the leaders and assembly of 11 African countries active an accord, alliance to advice end the battle in DR Congo.

The accord was active in the attendance of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

"It is alone the alpha of a absolute access that will crave abiding engagement," Mr Ban said.

The region's mineral abundance accept been plundered by abundant armed groups and countries over the accomplished 15 years, while a lot of Congolese humans abide mired in poverty.


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19 tourists killed after hot air balloon crash in Egypt

At atomic 19 adopted tourists, including British and French citizens, accept been asleep afterwards a hot air airship comatose abreast Luxor in Egypt at aurora today.

It appears that alone two humans may accept survived if the airship came down in a brawl of bonfire afterwards a gas access at 1,000ft.

Eye-witnesses said there was a blaze and a huge blast afore the airship again plunged from the sky and comatose into amoroso pikestaff fields west of Luxor.

Photographer Christopher Michel witnessed the incident, and took a set of pictures just 40 account afore the crash.

'It was the airship abaft mine. I heard a loud access and saw smoke. 19 dead,' he tweeted anon afterwards.

The authorities accept been apparent putting corpses into physique accoutrements and demography them abroad in ambulances.

There were about 20 humans on lath and 14 bodies accept been amid so far.

The UK Government could not affirm the amount of Britons asleep in the crash.

A Adopted Office spokesman: 'We are acquainted of the letters and we are authoritative burning inquiries with the authorities in Egypt.'

Ahmed Aboud, a agent for companies that accomplish airship flights in the area, said that one torurist and the balloon's pilot may accept survived

'There were 20 cartage aboard. An access happened and 19 cartage died. One day-tripper and the pilot survived,' he said.

Beautiful: Tourists will often be swept along the Nile and over Luxor's plethora of historic sites

Aboud represents eight companies that accomplish the hot air balloons frequently apparent in Luxor.

Hot air airship trips, usually at aurora over the Karnak and Luxor temples as able-bodied as the Valley of the Kings, are accepted with British visitors to Egypt.

Sixteen humans were hurt, including two British women, if a airship comatose during a bout of Luxor in April 2009. The airship was believed to accept hit a adaptable buzz manual belfry abreast the banks of the Nile.

Following the 2009 crash, aboriginal morning hot air airship flights over the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank of the Nile were abeyant for six months while assurance measures were anchored up.

During the break, all 42 pilots from the eight companies who accomplish flights had added training.

Other initiatives to advance assurance brought in included circumscribed all take-offs to a new airship 'airport' and attached the best amount of balloons up at the aforementioned time to eight - ahead as abounding as 50 could allotment the air space.

Popular: Many tourists will take a balloon rise around the majestic Valley of the Kings

Luxor is 320 afar south of Cairo and is one of Egypt's a lot of accepted day-tripper destinations as it is abutting to the acclaimed Valley of the Kings, area abounding pharaohs are buried, including Tutankhamen.

The adventure could accident Egypt's brittle tourism industry, which has suffered a aciculate abatement in company numbers back the 2011 insurgence that agitated President Hosni Mubarak, with two years of political alternation alarming off adopted tourists.

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Thousands attend Ndlovu burial

 
Thousands of fans, players, politicians and sports administrators abounding the burial of Zimbabwe fable Adam Ndlovu in Bulawayo on Saturday.

Adam, 42, died in a car blow endure Sunday which larboard his adolescent brother Peter in a analytical condition.

Peter, who is now in a abiding condition, was appear from hospital for the burial and abounding in a wheelchair with nurses by his side.

Adam played in Switzerland for seven seasons and denticulate 34 goals for Zimbabwe.
A host of Zimbabwean football legends, including above Warriors captain Benjani Mwaruwari, were at the funeral, forth with chief abstracts from all three capital political parties.


Adam was a fable and he affiliated the country through football

Morgan Tsvangirai Zimbabwe Prime Minister
"Adam was a fable and he affiliated the country through football," said Prime Abbot Morgan Tsvangirai, who abounding the deathwatch on Friday.

Many others paid accolade to Adam, who had just completed his aboriginal abounding division as a coach, demography Bulawayo ancillary Chicken Inn to a third-place accomplishment in the Premier League.

"He was like a brother to me, it's big accident for me and it pains me to be here," said above Zimbabwe apostle Harlington Shereni, who played alongside Adam at Delemont in Switzerland.

"He alien me to European football, he was the brilliant of the aggregation at Delemont and he was consistently there to advice me."

There had been calls from some abode for Adam to be declared a civic hero, although government insisted that hero cachet is alone for those with a liberation war history.

Sports abbot David Coltart said that added should be done to mark the achievements of acclaimed sports stars.

"I accept that we do not abundantly honour our antic and cultural heroes in Zimbabwe," said Mr Coltart.
"They generally do added than politicians to addition our alcohol and angel of the country."

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Afcon 2015 qualifiers

Afcon

Qualification for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations captivation in Morroco may about-face out a able-bodied assignment for Nigeria with the Cool Eagles acceptable to be fatigued adjoin above champions Cameroon or Egypt.

The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has appear the agriculture for the draw for the qualifiers which holders, Nigeria accept been seeded a part of the top seeds in pot 1 while the brand of Egypt and Cameroon who ahead were amidst the continent’s cool admiral in pot 2.

The Cool Eagles are a part of the 11 countries called in Pot One of the draw to be captivated next ages in Morocco.

Among the countries seeded are 2013 division finalists, the Black Stars of Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali.

The draw commemoration will yield abode on March 10 in Morocco during Caf General Assembly, with the accomplishment action reverting to its accustomed architecture as against to the adapted approach for the just-concluded

edition.
Forty-four teams are on the starting band and seeded in four pots of 11 teams anniversary according to their accepted ranking.

The Basic Annular is appointed to alpha in June.

As host country, Morocco able automatically.

Pot one: Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Togo, Mali, South Africa, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Zambia, Tunisia, Ghana.
Pot two: Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Senegal, Cameroon, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Uganda, Congo, Central African Republic.
Pot three: Ethiopia, Benin, Angola, Niger, Zimbabwe, Equatorial, Mozambique, Malawi, Burundi, Liberia, Sudan.
Pot four: To be bent afterwards the basic round.

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