About 100 people have been killed across Kenya in violence blamed on the disputed presidential election. Trouble started after Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki has been declared winner by the country's electoral commission after a closely-fought election. However, Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga rejected Mr Kibaki's victory, accusing him of electoral fraud and demanding a recount of the results.
Mr Odinga has called for a million-strong rally by supporters in Nairobi on Thursday, Jan 3, 2008. However, police banned his supporters from holding a mass alternative inauguration ceremony in the centre of the capital today, a day after Mr Kibaki was sworn into office again.
Since morning, violence erupted in several places, including capital Nairobi and port city of Mombasa. International news agencies have counted at least 100 deaths across Kenya.
An AFP news agency count puts the death toll in Kisumu at 53 and that in Nairobi's slums at 48
Seven people were killed in Nakuru, in the Rift Valley, and three in the western city of Kakamega
At least two people were killed in Mombasa
At least two people were killed in the Nairobi slum of Korogocho.
According to BBC:
European Union monitors were barred from counting centres in the Central Province, chief EU election observer Alexander Graf Lambsdorff told the BBC. Results declared by the electoral commission in Nairobi from one constituency differed from those announced locally, he said.
He reported seeing altered voting forms where "all the changes favoured the same candidate". Anomalies amounted to 20,000-25,000 votes in one constituency alone, he continued. Mr Kibaki's national margin of victory was 230,000 votes.
Elections chief Samuel Kivuitu has admitted some problems, including a reported voter turnout of 115% in one constituency, the Associated Press reports.
The British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, said London had "real concerns at the irregularities reported by the EU observers and others". United States, however, congratulated Mr Kibaki on his re-election.