What is Next for ICC Skype President and for Kenya ?

Uhuru Kenyatta gets 50.03 percent of votes in general elections: After votes from all 291 constituencies were counted,Kenyatta garnered 6,173,433 votes, or 50.03 percent,while his rival Raila Odinga got 5,340,546 votes. . NAIROBI -- Kenya’s Jubilee Alliance’s Uhuru Kenyatta secured 50.03 percent of votes in general elections on early Saturday, provisional results showed, passing the mark of 50 percent. After votes from all 291 constituencies were counted, Kenyatta garnered 6,173,433 votes, or 50.03 percent, while his rival Raila Odinga got 5,340,546 votes. The country’s electoral body, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said on Friday night that it will make final announcement on presidential elections at 11 a.m. on Saturday. For an outright victory in the first round, a candidate must garner at least 50 per cent plus one of all votes cast, in addition to getting at least 25 per cent of the votes in 24 counties out of 47. If there is no outright winner in the first round, the top two candidates will proceed into a run-off, where the candidate who obtains more votes becomes president. The 50.03 percent of votes indicated that Kenyatta may win in the first round. The results still need final confirmation from the IEBC. Odinga is scheduled to hold a news conference on Saturday. The general elections, which were the first since the new Constitution that was passed in 2010, were largely peaceful with millions of Kenyans lining up to make their voice heard. The counting process was challenged by both parties of Kenyatta and Odinga as well as technical hitches. The electronic transmission system, which was employed with the intention to ensure the fairness and transparency of the elections, broke down during tallying, forcing IEBC to resort to manual counting of votes at the national tallying center at the Bomas of Kenya. The delay of the results for days aroused anxiety among Kenyans who feared the repeat of bloodshed, following 2007 polls, in which more than 1,200 people were killed and 3,500 others were injured. Odinga’s party on Thursday questioned the integrity of the vote tallying process, saying the results were doctored. The party also urged the tallying should be stopped. The allegation was dismissed by the IEBC whose chairman Isaack Hassan said the tallying of the ballot can’t be halted since it was a legal process and asked the aggrieved parties to seek legal redress to stop it. On Friday, Kenya’s civil society group, the Africa Center for Open Governance, also sought to stop the tallying as it said the manual tallying process has irregularities and should be stopped and that electronic vote tallying should be used in accordance to the constitution. However, the high court rejected the claim, saying it has no jurisdiction to stop the presidential vote tallying. The narrow margin might meet legal challenge from Odinga. Both Kenyatta and Odinga had vowed publicly that there would be no repeat of the violence which also displaced more than 600,000 people. Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto have both been indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the possibility of electing a president and his deputy who have been accused of crimes against humanity has heightened interest in the elections. The charges stem from the 2007/2008 post election violence. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State in charge of Africa Johnnie Carson warned Kenyans in February that the choice they will make on March 4 will have consequences. "As much as the general election was a Kenyan affair, its outcome will have implications since a president ‘must work with the international community,’" he said. Before the election, the French government also cautioned Kenyans against "consequences" of their choices in the general elections.