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Scores dead in Kenya poll clashes
There has also been violence in Nairobi and Mombasa
Violent protests
Nearly 100 people have been killed across Kenya in violence blamed on
the disputed presidential election.
A BBC reporter at a mortuary in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu
saw 43 bodies with gunshot wounds. A witness said police had shot
protesters.
There were running battles in Nairobi slums, and violence was reported
in the coastal town of Mombassa.
Mwai Kibaki was officially re-elected president while Raila Odinga
says he was robbed of victory by voting fraud.
Mr Odinga has called for a million-strong rally by supporters in
Nairobi on Thursday.
Police banned his supporters from holding a mass alternative
inauguration ceremony in the centre of the capital on Monday, a day
after Mr Kibaki was sworn into office again.
Shortly after first light, thousands of angry Odinga supporters had
started setting fire to buildings in Nairobi's vast Kibera slum while
gangs of youths blockaded a nearby main road.
Police fired live rounds and tear gas at protesters armed with clubs
and machetes, and residents were allegedly warned to stay indoors or
be shot.
In the coastal town of Mombassa, angry crowds on the streets set fire
to cars and buildings and at one point hundreds of frightened tourists
were trapped at the airport, unable to leave by plane or road.
In other developments
The US embassy in Nairobi voiced concern at "serious problems"
with the vote-counting process hours after Washington congratulated
Mwai Kibaki
European Union election observers raised doubts about the
officially announced results
The government banned live broadcasts linked to the election
'Peaceful mass action'
Mr Odinga said he and his colleagues would not be intimidated by
violence, and he urged people to join mass, peaceful protests at the
election result.
OFFICIAL RESULTS
Mwai Kibaki (pictured): 4,584,721 votes
Raila Odinga: 4,352,993
Kalonzo Musyoka: 879,903
"We are calling our people to conduct themselves constitutionally and
we are therefore going to call for mass action countrywide, peaceful
mass action, peaceful demonstrations," he said.
Those killed in Kisumu include two women and three children, the BBC's
Noel Mwakugu reports.
Police fired indiscriminately, even after the protesters started
running away in the Kisumu suburbs of Manyatta and Nyamasira, an eye-
witness told him.
Local police chief Grace Kahindi said she had no knowledge of any
deaths.
A daytime curfew (0600-1800 local time, 0300-1500 GMT) was imposed in
the town.
In Nairobi, the national police chief, Maj Gen Hussein Ali, warned
that "nobody in the country [would] be allowed to take the law into
their own hands to visit death and destruction on anybody else".
Trouble also flared up in Bungoma, Busia, Eldoret, Kericho and
Kakamega, reports say.
Some of the violence took an ethnic dimension with the Luo community
seen as pro-Odinga and the Kikuyus viewed as Kibaki supporters.
Results changed
European Union monitors were barred from counting centres in the
Central Province, chief EU election observer Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
told the BBC.
HAVE YOUR SAY
It's a sad day for democracy in Kenya
Arthur, Nairobi
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.
There has also been violence in Nairobi and Mombasa
Violent protests
Nearly 100 people have been killed across Kenya in violence blamed on
the disputed presidential election.
A BBC reporter at a mortuary in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu
saw 43 bodies with gunshot wounds. A witness said police had shot
protesters.
There were running battles in Nairobi slums, and violence was reported
in the coastal town of Mombassa.
Mwai Kibaki was officially re-elected president while Raila Odinga
says he was robbed of victory by voting fraud.
Mr Odinga has called for a million-strong rally by supporters in
Nairobi on Thursday.
Police banned his supporters from holding a mass alternative
inauguration ceremony in the centre of the capital on Monday, a day
after Mr Kibaki was sworn into office again.
Shortly after first light, thousands of angry Odinga supporters had
started setting fire to buildings in Nairobi's vast Kibera slum while
gangs of youths blockaded a nearby main road.
Police fired live rounds and tear gas at protesters armed with clubs
and machetes, and residents were allegedly warned to stay indoors or
be shot.
In the coastal town of Mombassa, angry crowds on the streets set fire
to cars and buildings and at one point hundreds of frightened tourists
were trapped at the airport, unable to leave by plane or road.
In other developments
The US embassy in Nairobi voiced concern at "serious problems"
with the vote-counting process hours after Washington congratulated
Mwai Kibaki
European Union election observers raised doubts about the
officially announced results
The government banned live broadcasts linked to the election
'Peaceful mass action'
Mr Odinga said he and his colleagues would not be intimidated by
violence, and he urged people to join mass, peaceful protests at the
election result.
OFFICIAL RESULTS
Mwai Kibaki (pictured): 4,584,721 votes
Raila Odinga: 4,352,993
Kalonzo Musyoka: 879,903
"We are calling our people to conduct themselves constitutionally and
we are therefore going to call for mass action countrywide, peaceful
mass action, peaceful demonstrations," he said.
Those killed in Kisumu include two women and three children, the BBC's
Noel Mwakugu reports.
Police fired indiscriminately, even after the protesters started
running away in the Kisumu suburbs of Manyatta and Nyamasira, an eye-
witness told him.
Local police chief Grace Kahindi said she had no knowledge of any
deaths.
A daytime curfew (0600-1800 local time, 0300-1500 GMT) was imposed in
the town.
In Nairobi, the national police chief, Maj Gen Hussein Ali, warned
that "nobody in the country [would] be allowed to take the law into
their own hands to visit death and destruction on anybody else".
Trouble also flared up in Bungoma, Busia, Eldoret, Kericho and
Kakamega, reports say.
Some of the violence took an ethnic dimension with the Luo community
seen as pro-Odinga and the Kikuyus viewed as Kibaki supporters.
Results changed
European Union monitors were barred from counting centres in the
Central Province, chief EU election observer Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
told the BBC.
HAVE YOUR SAY
It's a sad day for democracy in Kenya
Arthur, Nairobi
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.
