" A man avoids a burning barricade set up by supporters of the opposition coalition the National Super Alliance and its presidential candidate Raila Odinga to block vehicles from delivering electoral materials to the polling stations in the Kibera slum Daniel Carlson Vikings Jersey , one of the opposition strongholds in Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday. Photo: IC Kenyan opposition supporters clashed with police and threw up burning barricades on Thursday, seeking to derail an election rerun likely to return Uhuru Kenyatta as president of East Africa's chief economic and political powerhouse.
In the western city of Kisumu, stone-throwing youths heeding opposition leader Raila Odinga's call for a voter boycott were met by live rounds, tear gas and water cannon. Gunfire killed one protester and wounded three others, a nurse said. Reuters found no polling stations open there.
Riot police fired tear gas in Kibera and Mathare Mike Hughes Vikings Jersey , two volatile Nairobi slums. Protesters set fires in Kibera early in the morning and in Mathara a church was firebombed and a voter attacked.
Around 50 people have been killed, mostly by security forces, since the original August 8 vote. The Supreme Court annulled Kenyatta's win in that poll on procedural grounds and ordered fresh elections within 60 days, but Odinga called for a boycott amid concerns the poll would not be free and fair.
The repeat election is being closely watched across East Africa, which relies on Kenya as a trade and logistics hub, and in the West Anthony Barr Vikings Jersey , which considers Nairobi a bulwark against Islamist militancy in Somalia and civil conflict in South Sudan and Burundi.
While tensions simmered in opposition strongholds, other areas were calm. In the capital, polling stations saw a sprinkling of voters instead of the hours-long queues that waited in August.
Interior minister Fred Matiang'i told Citizen TV that polling stations opened in 90 percent of the country, including Kiambu, where Kenyatta cast his ballot.
""We are requesting them [voters] humbly that they should turn out in large numbers,"" Kenyatta Everson Griffen Vikings Jersey , the US-educated son of Kenya's founding father, Jomo Kenyatta, said after voting. ""We're tired as a country of electioneering and I think it's time to move forward.""
If some counties fail to hold elections, it could trigger legal challenges to the election, stirring longer-term instability and ethnic divisions.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court was due to hear a case seeking to delay the polls. But it was unable to sit after five out of the seven judges failed to show up Kyle Rudolph Vikings Jersey , fuelling suspicions among opposition supporters.
""The lack of a quorum is highly unusual for a Supreme Court hearing,"" a statement from the European Union said. ""Not hearing this case has de facto cut off the legal path for remedy.""
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TEL AVIV, Israel, March 8 (Xinhua) -- One Israeli was killed and nine others were injured in stabbing attacks carried out by one attacker in Jaffa, where U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is attending a conference.
The assailant stabbed dozen of bystanders in several locations, starting at the Jaffa port Linval Joseph Vikings Jersey , then continuing to stab people near the clock tower square, as well as on a location hundreds of meters to the north near a Tel Aviv seaside restaurant.
One Israeli was killed, at least four were seriously wounded, four others were moderately wounded and one person was lightly injured, the Israeli emergency services said.
They were evacuated to the Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv and the Wolfson hospital in Holon, south of Tel Aviv. The attacker was shot and killed by Israeli police forces Harrison Smith Vikings Jersey , Samri said.
Biden had at that time attended a conference with former Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Peres Center for Peace, located about two to three kilometers south of the scenes of attacks.
These attacks join others that took place earlier on Tuesday afternoon, one at Petach Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv situated east of the city, and one in east Jerusalem.
An Israeli was moderately wounded in the Petach Tikva stabbing attack and the assailant, said to be a "minority" -- meaning Arab -- was shot and killed by police forces Kirk Cousins Vikings Jersey , according to the Israeli polices.
It is not clear whether the attacker is an Arab Israeli or a Palestinian living in east Jerusalem or the West Bank, occupied Israeli territories. Arab Israelis are Palestinians who stayed in Israel after the 1948 War and are citizens of Israel, making up 20 percent of the population.
Shortly after the Petach Tikva attack, an attacker shot two Israeli policemen on Salah a-Din street in east Jerusalem, wounding one critically and another moderately. He was shot and killed by police forces, according to a statement Adam Thielen Vikings Jersey , adding he was in possession of a Carl Gustav rifle.
At least 28 Israelis have been killed in stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks since October, when the wave of violence started. More than 170 Palestinians have been killed, some in clashes with Israeli security forces, while others were gunned down after carrying out attacks against Israelis.
Israeli leaders say the Palestinian Authority incites violence, whereas the Palestinians charge it is the result of 49 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank Stefon Diggs Vikings Jersey , east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip territories, where they wish to establish a Palestinian state, in accordance with the two-state solution.
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