A Look Back At Kenya's 2007 Election and Aftermath

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Election posters for the three main presidential candidates.
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Nairobi voters line up at the polls.
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Clash victims following the elections and consequent conflict queue for food at the Nakuru showground.
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A demonstrator feels the pain of a policemans wrath in Nakuru, as violence continued after Electoral Commission of Kenya declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner. The Nakuru area saw some of the worst violence.
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Police chase an opposition demonstrator in Nairobi.
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Hundreds of families from Kiptagich village in Molo camp outside government offices following violence in Kuresoi.
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A woman cries from the balcony of her house as she watches fire consume Kiberas Toi market in Nairobi.
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Activists join the opposition Orange Democratic Movement protests in Mombasa.
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Opposition MP Najib Balala runs from police in Nairobi after police used teargas to break up a protest.
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A youth jumps on the wreckage of a car as a mob barricades a road with burning tyres in Kibera, Nairobi. During the stalemate, the opposition Orange Democratic Movement called many protests.
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Civil rights activist Okoiti Omtatah is arrested after he chained himself to the Police headquarters fence to protest the governments use of brutal force to stop ODM demonstrations.
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Demonstrators throw teargas back at the police in the Mathare slums in Nairobi on 16 January 2008.
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A residential block where ten people were burnt to death during the skirmishes in Naivasha town.
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Paramiltary police officers pursue mourners into slain ODM MP Mugabe Weres home in Nairobi on Tuesday.
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Displaced families in Kenya's Rift Valley.
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Kenyan children displaced by the recent violence.
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ODM Councillor-elect Paul Achayo (left), and Maina Kiai, the chairman of the Kenya National Human Rights Commission, at the Nyanza Provincial Hospital mortuary. They had gone to view bodies of those shot in the post-election violence.
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ODM leader Raila Odinga, President Mwai Kibaki and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan pictured during Kenyan peace talks.
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President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga shake hands outside Harambee House, Nairobi, after signing an agreement on power sharing ending the post-election stalemate.
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Some of the people who poured onto streets in Kisumu following the signing of a deal by President Mwi Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga. Celebration was also reported in Mombasa and Eldoret.