Kibaki front-runner in December polls: the Kenya presidential and general elections are scheduled for December this year. The incumbent, Mwai Kibaki's popularity has been rising steadily on the back of an economic growth spurt and with the main opposition divided, appears set to win another term of office. Neil Ford reports.

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Kibaki front-runner in December polls: the Kenya presidential and general elections are scheduled for December this year. The incumbent, Mwai Kibaki's popularity has been rising steadily on the back of an economic growth spurt and with the main opposition divided, appears set to win another term of office. Neil Ford reports.

During most of a turbulent first term of office, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki looked unlikely to secure a second electoral victory. Huge divisions within his National Rainbow Coalition (Narc), an unsuccessful campaign for a new constitution, personal health problems and corruption scandals all appeared to scupper his political fortunes. Yet a major realignment of the Kenyan political landscape over the past few months and an i...

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