22/03/2013
Uhuru Kenyatta has won the Kenyan presidential election. He barely made it past the 50 percent mark to avoid a runoff with his opponent Raila Odinga. Violence did not follow, as some warned, and the voter turnout was much higher than predicted.
Nevertheless, the risk of repeating the violence that marred its 2007 presidential election persists in a country ethnically very fragmented.
Author: Blanca Palacián de Inza