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Kenyan Opposition Shuns Courts, Vows Protests Demanding New Vote

Election results can’t be allowed to stand, Odinga says
Crisis shows Kenya is inherently volatile, analyst says

Raila Odinga, center, arrives for a meeting in Nairobi on Oct. 31, 2017. — Raila Odinga, center, arrives for a meeting in Nairobi on Oct. 31, 2017.
Photographer: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images

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Samuel Gebre and

October 31, 2017, 2:23 PM UTCUpdated onNovember 1, 2017, 5:13 AM UTC

Kenya’s main opposition alliance said it won’t challenge the results that gave President Uhuru Kenyatta a landslide victory in last week’s disputed election rerun in court and instead vowed to mobilize its supporters to press for a another vote.

“This election must not stand,” opposition leader Raila Odinga told reporters in Nairobi, the capital. “If allowed to stand, it will make a complete mockery of elections and might well be the end of the ballot as a means of instituting government in Kenya.”