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Friday, August 4, 2017

RE: A brutal murder in Kenya highlights why its election matters to the U.S & 2 more News stories.

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A brutal murder in Kenya highlights why its election matters to the U.S.

Newsweek Wed, Aug 2 1:24 PM PDT
The brutal murder of a top election official in Kenya, with just a week before the East African country holds a general election, has raised the familiar specter of violence—a decade on from an election that ended with over 1,000 killed in its aftermath. And U.S. officials are concerned. The family of Christopher Msando, the man in charge of Kenya's electronic voting system, identified his body at a mortuary in the capital, Nairobi, on Monday, police said. Msando had been missing for three days; he was tortured before being murdered, according to the head of Kenya's election commission, Wafula Chebukati. Taken on its own, Msando's death is a brutal act. But set against the background of volatile ...
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State sued over Msando, Kimani, Juma killings

Daily Nation Thu, Aug 3 6:11 AM PDT
Former Law Society of Kenya boss Apollo Mboya has sued the State over rising disappearances of people and extrajudicial killings. The case comes on the backdrop of the murder of IEBC ICT Manager Chris Msando and KMTC graduand Carol Ngumbu. FROM 2008 Mr Mboya on Wednesday sued the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Inspector-General of Police, the Director of Criminal Investigations as well as the Attorney-General. He wants them ordered to produce probe reports of all missing persons and extrajudicial killings from February 2008 to date. In his suit, he has a list of the some of the people who were either killed or disappeared without trace. They include lawyers Albert Muriuki, who disappeared ...
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Student murdered with IEBC man was strangled with a rope

The Standard 17 hours ago
The woman found dead alongside slain Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ICT manager Chris Msando was strangled using a rope, a postmortem report shows. An autopsy conducted at the City Mortuary Thursday showed Maryanne Wairimu Ngumbu, 21 also had bruises on her hands probably after being tied. This came as police revealed they had questioned and recorded statements from six people over the murder of the woman and Msando. Four others who police termed as persons of interest are being sought, Inspector-General Joseph Boinnet said. Government Chief Pathologist Johansen Oduor said her neck and throat were squeezed by killers who police are yet to catch up with. "She died out of asphyxia ...
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