Kenyan police fire teargas at protesters calling for election board to be fired
Nairobi — Police fired teargas at opposition activists in Kenya’s capital on Friday as demonstrators, who also held protests in three other cities, called for the sacking of election board officials involved in August’s cancelled presidential vote.Crowds gathered in Nairobi, the western opposition stronghold of Kisumu and the port of Mombasa for the second time this week.In September, Kenya’s supreme court voided the August 8 presidential election, citing irregularities, but did not criticise any specific individual at the election board.President Uhuru Kenyatta, who officially won by 1.4-million votes only to have his victory annulled, has accused the supreme court of bringing the country close to "judicial chaos".Opposition leader Raila Odinga and his supporters have turned their ire on the election board for its role in the cancelled poll.With three weeks to go until a scheduled re-run of the vote, politicians from both sides have traded insults and accusations, raising fears of ...
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