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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Kenya is Holding a High-Stakes Election
Description: Kenyans will go to the polls on August 9th to elect a new president. The current president, Uhuru Kenyatta, is term limited from seeking re-election and the two main candidates are both very familiar figures in Kenyan politics. William Ruto is currently the Deputy to President Kenyatta. But the two men had a falling out and now President Kenyatta is backing Ruto's main rival, Raila Odinga. For his part, this is Odinga's fifth time running for president. Kenya has a recent history of highly competitive elections that are sometimes accompanied by violence. Disputed elections in 2007 le...