Hate Speech and Tension Ahead of Kenya's 2017 Poll

With just over a year to go before the next poll, the current political climate can be likened to that which preceded the electoral violence in 2007/8 that left an estimated 1,300 people killed, thousands injured and around 600,000 people displaced, this is according to the Institute for Security Studies.

Cord supporters during anti-IEBC demos in Kisumu.

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