Kenya: Report of the Independent Review Commission on the General Elections - Executive Summary

22 September 2008
Independent Review Commission (Nairobi)
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The following is an executive summary of the report of the Independent Review Commission on the General Elections held in Kenya on 27 December 2007. Click here to read the full report [PDF].

On 30 December 2007, following announcement of the presidential election results, violence broke out in several places across Kenya amid claims that the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) had rigged the presidential election. Sporadic eruptions continued for many weeks, bringing death and destruction to thousands of Kenyans. An African Union-sponsored Panel of Eminent African Personalities led by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan brokered a settlement which heralded a government of national unity between the main political parties and a common commitment to urgent constitutional reform. The settlement included the appointment of two commissions, one to examine the violence and the other, the Independent Review Commission (IREC), to examine the December 2007 Kenyan elections from various perspectives.

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