Kenya was hurtling towards a deepening political crisis after violent clashes and a record-low turnout in its contentious presidential rerun, suggesting that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s anticipated victory would be a hollow one. Mr Kenyatta’s return to power seemed assured after Raila Odinga, the opposition leader, withdrew from the fresh race, calling for a boycott of an election that he has condemned as a “sham”. With Kenyans at their most polarised in a decade, voting in parts of the country got off to a chaotic start, with some polling stations unable to open at all and others forced to delay by several hours.
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