This article by Declan Walsh, Abdi Latif Dahir and Matthew Mpoke Bigg is published by The New York Times. Here is an excerpt:

Speaking for the first time since he lost Kenya’s hard-fought presidential election, the opposition leader Raila Odinga rejected the result announced on Monday and vowed to pursue “all legal options,” apparently signaling that the dispute that has gripped the East African country is likely to be decided at its Supreme Court.

The narrow victory pronounced by the electoral commission in favor of his rival, William Ruto — 50.5 percent of votes against 48.9 percent for Mr. Odinga — was “a travesty and a blatant disregard of the constitution and the laws of Kenya,” Mr. Odinga told supporters at a conference center in downtown Nairobi.

The results are “null and void and must be quashed by a court of law,” he added.

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