Kenya’s Kenyatta, Facing ICC Charges, Wins Presidential Vote

Uhuru Kenyatta, who is preparing for trial at the International Criminal Court, won Kenya’s presidential election as his main rival rejected the result and said he would go to court to have it overturned.

The son of Kenya’s first post-independence president, Jomo Kenyatta, took 50.07 percent of ballots in the March 4 vote, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Chairman Issack Hassan said today in the capital, Nairobi. Outgoing Prime Minister Raila Odinga, whose dispute of the results of elections in 2007 triggered two months of ethnic clashes, got 43.3 percent in a process he said was “tainted.”