Kenya Between Warnings and Tensions Over Election Results

Nairobi, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) Street tensions are overcoming here today a relative calm following August 8 elections, won by President Uhuru Kenyatta, who warned that he would not tolerate eruptions of violence.
Unofficial versions state that about 24 people were killed in street rallies here and in other cities, triggered by the announcement that Kenyatta won with 54 percent of votes, nine points over his opponent, Raila Odinga, who denounced the piracy of the Electoral Commission's servers by supporters of the president.
The polls were supported by international observers, but the anger of both candidates during the election campaign and the days before the vote created apprehensions of a reissue of the riots after the December 2007 elections in which 1,200 people were killed.
There are millions of citizens who want to recover normality (...) The Constitution provides for legal mechanisms to make any challenge, the president said during a public speech broadcast throughout the country.

Odinga convened today a kind of 24-hour strike as a token of mourning for those killed in street clashes among his supporters and what he described as 'death squads', alluding the security forces that dispersed protests with pellets and tear gas.